Gaming Reviews
Detailed reviews of all the latest video games, monitors, consoles, handhelds and more.
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8810088100PlayStation 5 Pro review: A superpowered $700 console for gamers who won't buy a PC
The PlayStation 5 Pro is the most powerful console ever made, but you’ll pay dearly for its performance. Thanks to a faster GPU, it finally delivers 4K and 60 fps performance for PlayStation gamers, with a dash of new ray tracing features.
8010080100Nintendo Alarmo review: Charming, yet frustrating
Alarmo brings a dose of Nintendo fun into your bedroom, with sleep noises and motion sensing alarms featuring classic Nintendo characters. It’s expensive, though, and its sleep tracking is mostly useless.
Devindra Hardawar10.22.2024
Neva review: A platformer that's so perfect, it made me cry
Neva is a living fairy tale that plays out in dreamlike scenes of natural beauty, starring two creatures bonded by tragedy and propelled by an intense need to protect each other — and save the world in the process.
Jessica Conditt10.15.2024
9010090100Meta Quest 3S review: Impressive VR for $300
The Meta Quest 3S delivers immersive virtual reality for just $300. It’s fast, comfortable to wear and it has a wealth of games and VR experiences to choose from.
Devindra Hardawar10.14.2024
Phoenix Springs review: A dazzling and disquieting sci-fi mystery
Playing Phoenix Springs feels like being trapped in a gorgeous dream that’s steadily becoming a nightmare. It’s a point-and-click mystery set in a bleak futuristic world of dramatic shadows and muted primary colors, its scenes connected by streams of anxious static.
Jessica Conditt10.07.2024
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is as familiar as it is fresh
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom flips the standard sword-and-shield formula for something both fresh and familiar.
Nathan Ingraham09.25.2024
What the Car? hits Steam, and it's still one of the best games you'll play this year
What the Car? is a celebration of gaming through pure creativity, unfettered by the trappings of narrative logic.
Devindra Hardawar09.06.2024
Astro Bot PS5 review: One of the best games Sony has ever made
Astro Bot highlights the importance of play. It’s Super Mario Bros. for a new generation of video game fanatics, at once an introduction to common video game mechanics and also a significant challenge for seasoned players.
Jessica Conditt09.06.2024
Thank Goodness You’re Here is a vibrant, funny, unashamedly silly game
Thank Goodness You’re Here is a vibrant, silly game based in the fictional northern-England town called Barnsworth, which is definitely 80 percent Barnsley, 20 percent plausible deniability. It's also actually, truly, funny.
Mat Smith09.02.2024
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a turn-based RPG with beautiful artistic flair
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a dreamy fantasy adventure that taps into the turn-based style of '90s RPGs.
Mat Smith08.28.2024
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle has a Nazi-slapping mechanic
Parts of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle are in third-person, and there are plenty of cutscenes for players to admire Troy Baker's spot-on Harrison Ford impression.
Jessica Conditt08.21.2024
CIA brainwashing experiments helped make Outlast an iconic horror series
The Sleep Room in The Outlast Trials is named after a real-life space at McGill University’s Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal, where from 1957 to 1964, doctors conducted mind-control experiments on patients as part of the CIA’s MK-Ultra initiative.
Jessica Conditt08.15.2024
Taskmaster VR doesn’t quite deliver on the promise of the TV show
On paper, Taskmaster the TV show was ripe for a VR spin-off. But it's a bit of a miss. Two points
Mat Smith08.12.2024
8710087100ASUS ROG Ally X review: A fully armed and operational handheld battle station
Thanks to some subtle design tweaks and major hardware upgrades, ASUS has turned the ROG Ally X into the flagship Windows gaming handheld it was meant to be.
Sam Rutherford08.09.2024
'Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess' review: Demonic delights
Kunitsu-Gami balances beauty and gore with supreme skill, and introduces a novel combat loop that feels fantastic.
Jessica Conditt07.20.2024
Still Wakes the Deep is a modern horror classic
In Still Wakes the Deep, horror comes in multiple forms.
Jessica Conditt07.06.2024
MSI Claw A1M review: A touch late and bit too pricey
At $750 for the Core Ultra 7 model, the Claw is more expensive than rivals like the ROG Ally and Legion Go while offering similar performance and not enough in the way of special features.
Sam Rutherford06.21.2024
Tales of the Shire is a cozy village sim where you can’t run, but you can skip
The march of big-budget Tolkien fantasy has hit gaming yet again. While ignoring Gollum’s misadventures, another game, Tales of the Shire, offers a gentler, low-stakes way to play in the universe of Bagginses, lembas bread, and Gandalf.
Mat Smith06.19.2024
Black Myth: Wukong is pretty, intriguing and as challenging as it looks
Black Myth: Wukong is gorgeous. It’s built up a lot of momentum, feeding trailer after gorgeous trailer, and at Summer Game Fest this year, We finally got to play it. Is it just a gorgeous tech demo with a heavy dose of Chinese mythology or your next gaming challenge?
Mat Smith06.18.2024
Metaphor: ReFantazio feels like a JRPG free from restraint and sanity
Atlus' giant fantasy RPG 'Metaphor: ReFantazio' has been a long time in the making. After rolling through a demo at Summer Game Fest last weekend, I’m dying to play it.
Aaron Souppouris06.15.2024