Gears Story

There’s nothing normal about interviewing Xbox chief Phil Spencer these days.

When PlayStation Now first launched, in 2015, it was more confusing than enticing. On paper, it was meant to be a…

Hades is my game of the year. It’s also the game of the year. I don’t mean to say that Hades is objectively the…

Most tactical games condition you to avoid failure. In XCOM, once a character dies, they’re gone. Same for Fire…

Hello, all you electric love swarms, and welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the only advice column that helps eliminate…

I thought I was in for a challenge. Instead I put my entire save file on the line because I didn’t pay attention to…

Twenty years on from release I must acknowledge that, for a classic multiplayer game, Perfect Dark now suffers from…

We live in an age of sequels, but not all sequels are created equal. Are you playing a true sequel, or are you…

Gears Tactics, the don’t-call-it-an-XCOM strategy game out this week for PC, flips the long-running Gears of War…

When Gears Tactics was first announced back at E3 2018, which feels like 10 years ago, I was excited. I had never…