“Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but nobody wants to die,” as the saying goes. For as much as we suffer, toiling away ...

Apsulov: End of Gods simply shouldn’t work as well as it does. It’s a first-person horror game not unlike last week’s Observer, yet ...

What’s worse than dread? What could possibly be more heinous than paranoia dripping down your spine? Doubt. You see, where dread makes you ...

Dread is a hard emotion to capture, especially in an interactive space. It’s not simply being scared, but being fully aware of the ...

One year ago, my inaugural Second Look piece on 2K Marin’s The Bureau: XCOM Declassified went up. I’d just moved over to The ...

I’m in a weird place with Sony. I’m kinda, sorta not hugely in love with its first-party output on PlayStation 4. There are ...

You know what I remember most about Wolfenstein: The New Order? The first thing that comes to mind? It’s not laser guns, towering ...

343 Industries hasn’t exactly had a smooth go of it, picking up where Bungie left off with the Halo series. For the last ...

One of my earliest pieces for the Escapist was about how Gears 5 seemingly took one long look at Halo 5: Guardians and ...

Building a platform is tricky business. For every Steam, there’s a uPlay. For every Fortnite, an Amazon battle royale going back into beta. ...

Quake Champions is a game that certainly happened. It’s received numerous updates for over three years now to acknowledge that it does, in ...

I wasn’t expecting Vampire Rain to be such a precise distillation of my 2020 experience. Its being a much derided Xbox 360 game ...