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Dragon Quest XI comes out on the Nintendo Switch tomorrow. I’ve played the original game four times all the way…

Daemon X Machina, out September 13 from Marvelous, is a game about gigantic customizable mechs. Here is another way…

Gears 5 has the longest and most ambitious campaign that Gears of War has ever done and, for the most part, that…

The most dedicated players of 2009’s Assassin’s Creed II could stray from the Italian Renaissance adventures of Ezio…

Genre is mostly bullshit. It’s useful for discussion and for imagining where a certain game exists on the continuum…

The good news: Seiken Densetsu 3, the sequel to Secret of Mana, is finally available outside Japan for the first…

Ghost Trick is what you’d get if the film Ghost met Groundhog Day. Directed by the creator of the Ace Attorney…

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s second story DLC, “Fate of Atlantis,” started with a fantastical, pulp-schlock bang. It…

Rage 2 is caught between Good Stupid and Bad Stupid. In the end, Bad Stupid wins out.

Game of Thrones is near its end. After spending a decade with this television show, the end feels momentus. As I…