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Sep 18, 2026 / GameSpotControl Resonant’s Best Aspect Left Me Utterly SpeechlessRemedy Entertainment's signature style has often made gameplay feel secondary to story. Games like Alan Wake, Quantum Break, and Control had fun gamepla...
Sep 16, 2026 / GameSpotResident Evil Finally Captures The Breathless Terror Of The GamesFew movies can truly say they hit the ground running, but Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil is among them. And that’s a good thing, because after so many...
Sep 16, 2026 / GameSpotFire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Is The Series’ New PeakEven for a series known for its sprawling scope, Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave is ambitious. Nintendo and developer Intelligent Systems clearly approache...
Sep 10, 2026 / GameSpotWolverine Only Aims As High As Its Stout HeroA few hours into Wolverine I found myself asking, “Why did Insomniac Games make this?” There are obvious answers, of course: It has three excellent...
Sep 4, 2026 / GameSpotNBA 2K’s Best Mode Is Even Better This YearNBA 2K has long been the standard-bearer for high-quality sports games. It's the pinnacle that other series like Madden, FC, and even the oft-beloved ML...
Sep 3, 2026 / GameSpotHalloween Cleverly Carves Its Own Path Through Horror Multiplayer Among horror royalty, there is perhaps no greater icon than Michael Myers. First appearing in 1978, the slasher helped ignite a trend of similar movie m...
Aug 31, 2026 / GameSpotThe Blood Of Dawnwalker Makes You Want To Do Everything–And Tantalizingly Won’t Let YouVery few of the many stories you'll encounter in The Blood of Dawnwalker end happily. It seems foolish to expect anything else from a dark, medieval act...
Aug 31, 2026 / GameSpotFighting Is Everything In Onimusha: Way Of The Sword"Fighting is everything" is a phrase protagonist Miyamoto Musashi uses to explain his ethos, but it's an ideology that doubles as an accurate descriptio...
Aug 28, 2026 / GameSpotResonance: A Plague Tale Legacy Is Good If You Do The Necessary Homework BeforehandResonance: A Plague Tale Legacy faces a difficult balancing act. Can it move away from its predecessors' terrifying waves of rats and still deliver a su...
Aug 27, 2026 / GameSpotZero Company Is The Rare Star Wars Game To Meaningfully Push A Genre ForwardStar Wars has been inspiring video games practically since video games have existed, but unlike the trailblazing film series, it has mostly been content...
Aug 21, 2026 / GameSpotI’ve Played (Almost) Every Zombie Game, And This New One Still Feels Excitingly FreshFor as long as I can remember, I've enjoyed zombie fiction. I've always figured it's because I saw Romero's classics at way too young an age, but I've n...
Aug 18, 2026 / GameSpotIt’s Time To Accept Madden Is Good AgainFor my entire life, sports games have lived under the shadow of a particular criticism: "same game, different year." It was never literally true, of cou...
Aug 17, 2026 / GameSpotMortal Shell 2 Is A Fresh And Exciting Shake Up Of The Souls-like FormulaMortal Shell 2 features most of the familiar hallmarks of the souls-like genre: It's set in a dark fantasy world and incorporates gothic, medieval, and...
Aug 13, 2026 / GameSpotMarvel Tokon: Fighting Souls Raises The Bar For Tag FightersFor many fighting game fans, It's impossible to look at Marvel Tokon and not think of Marvel Vs. Capcom. The crossover series defined the crossover ta...
Aug 3, 2026 / GameSpotBeast Of Reincarnation’s Cinematic Focus Fails Its Flashy ActionWhen you start a new game in Game Freak’s Beast of Reincarnation, a prompt asks if you’d like to play in cinematic mode. This locks the cutscene fra...
Aug 3, 2026 / GameSpotBig Walk Is One Of The Best Co-Op Games EverIn the three years since Big Walk was announced, I've heard it referred to as a co-op walking sim, a puzzle-adventure game, and friendslop. After spendi...
Jul 23, 2026 / GameSpotIt Feels Wrong For Halo To Feel Better Than Ever On PS5There's something that almost feels sacrilegious about playing Halo on a PlayStation console. The sci-fi shooter franchise feels quintessentially Xbox,...
Jul 21, 2026 / GameSpotSplatoon Raiders Shows The Series Should Have Always Been A Looter ShooterSplatoon is a Nintendo series that I've enjoyed well enough, but fleetingly. Even with solid shooting mechanics and a playful gimmick revolving around q...
Jul 8, 2026 / GameSpotBlack Flag Resynced Is A Bad Remake Of Peak Assassin’s CreedI've been conflicted about Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced since it was announced. The original 2013 pirate action-adventure is one of my favorite...
Jul 1, 2026 / GameSpotNintendo’s Wackiest New Game Feels Like The Devs Getting Away With SomethingSomewhere in the back of my mind, I must have known that Rhythm Heaven was a close cousin to WarioWare, but it never stood out to me as strongly as it d...
Jun 24, 2026 / GameSpotStar Fox Is A New Beginning That Undermines ItselfThere's a reason Nintendo keeps remaking Star Fox 64. The N64 iteration of the rail shooter--at the time, the second Star Fox release--remains the apex...
Jun 17, 2026 / GameSpotThe Adventures Of Elliot: The Millennium Tales Makes A Strong Argument For Silent ProtagonistsIn a relatively short time, Team Asano at Square Enix has made a name for itself. Between the Bravely and Octopath series, it has become known for takin...
Jun 16, 2026 / GameSpotFinally, A Fun NBA Game That Doesn’t Ask For All My Time And MoneyIf you're going to take on a juggernaut like NBA 2K, you'd better have a strong gameplan. Built from the cherished streetball memories of yesteryear and...