Deep Rock Galactic is a cooperative, squad-based first-person shooter similar to games like Warhammer: Vermintide and Left 4 Dead. If you’ve ever fantasized about being a dwarf and mining ore in space for a faceless, uncaring, megacorporation, then Deep Rock Galactic may be the game for you. When you first launch the game, you see
The modern era is peculiar. Technology is overly complex, poorly constructed, and unreliable. Engineered obsolescence is built into the gadgets we buy, and consumers are cajoled into purchasing ever more expensive warranties for systems that are designed to fail. Video games are no different. Server architecture, reliability, and gameplay have been sliding ever downward as
Doom Eternal is a stunning game with a frenetic pace that will both challenge and titillate first-person shooter fanatics. Environments are detailed, weapons and effects sound amazing. Enemies explode into a gory mess when felled. The engine is smooth, fluid, absent frame time issues, and micro stuttering that plague many games. The combat is complemented
If there’s one game that sticks out in my memory as being underrated, it is Spacehulk: Deathwing – a first-person shooter that takes place in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. In the 40k universe, a spacehulk is a derelict hunk of twisted metal that forms from abandoned spaceships that fuse together and are ejected from the
Customs is one of my favorite Escape from Tarkov maps. It’s a very easy map for a new player to learn, as the exit points are straight forward, and the action is funneled into a set of key areas. As such, it is easy for a player to predict where conflict will occur. The high-value
My very first post was an Escape from Tarkov review. Tarkov, at the time, was a niche game, but as it was one of my favourite shooters, I thought it would be an interesting debut to the Coil platform. Escape from Tarkov’s popularity has since exploded, and it now regularly tops the viewer count list
The Outer Worlds is a strange game to categorize. It plays like a generic first-person shooter, but there’s also the skeleton of a role-playing game buried deep inside. It has some of the typical stat rolls you would expect from an Obsidian game – skills like charisma or intimidation can be used to influence characters,
Give me loot or give me death. I want guns – shiny and fantastical, shotguns that shoot rockets and pistols that shoot mini-nukes. I want cosmetics that shine and glow, grenades that hover and bounce and spin. I can’t get enough of the loot. Borderlands 3 adds personality to the tedium of loot grind games.
Have you ever wanted to like a game so badly that you hop on social media and blast anyone who dares to question whether your favorite game will have severe performance issues at launch? Have you so convinced yourself that something will be good, before having even tried it, that any negative news, like a
Hunt: Showdown is a first-person shooter from the makers of Crysis that manages to distinguish itself with a unique setting and game-play loop. It takes place in Louisiana in the year 1895 after a mysterious epidemic has cut through the Louisiana bayou, infecting the people and animals, and turning them into monsters. From the moment
