Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is the very best of the Smash Bros. series.

I spent an hour and a half tackling a single platforming sequence in Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom. Not an entire…

Fallout 76 is filled with intriguing ideas, set amid an appealing post-apocalyptic sprawl ripe for exploration. It’s…

Battlefield V is complicated, sweeping, and enjoyable to play. Its narrative highlights World War II’s lesser known…

Pokémon Let’s Go! Pikachu and Eevee are going to be divisive. The games seem meant to introduce a new generation of…

Hitman series protagonist Agent 47 isn’t an interesting guy. Despite his gleaming, barcoded head, he disappears into a…

Tetris Effect takes the pure, near-perfect game design of the classic puzzle game and injects a cocktail of…

In Ubisoft’s toys-to-life adventure, Starlink: Battle for Atlas, players are given access to a virtual (or physical)…

From tip to tail, Red Dead Redemption 2 is a profound, glorious downer. It is the rare blockbuster video game that…

“Realistically I think it’ll take me around half a year,” Lucas Pope wrote four and a half years ago about his game Retu…

The fourth installment of Treyarch’s Black Ops series might be the first Call of Duty to forgo a single-player…

If you have never played The World Ends With You before, the Nintendo Switch version released on Thursday night is not…

“Who are you rooting for?” I asked my housemate, a non-player heckler watching a full-up game of Super Mario Party.…

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is huge. Each new boundary is broken down the moment you reach it, the game world spilling out…

Mega Man 11 is a fine game, and a worthy eleventh entry in a series that once set the bar for tricky platformers. It…

Dragon Ball games are for Dragon Ball fans. Fighting games are for fighting game fans. Dragon Ball FighterZ is both of…

Valkyria Chronicles 4 is a game of extremes. Its romantic attitude towards soldiers clashes with a desire to tell a…

Destiny 2’s new expansion, Forsaken, turns the game into something that people can play as much as they want without…

The new Tomb Raider’s freshest idea is the floating of a question: What if all this tomb raiding that Lara Croft does…

Insomniac Games’ new Spider-Man adventure on the PS4 is a fun comic book brawler with some good story beats elevated by…