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Doom Eternal cranks the dial to 11, throws gas on the fire, puts the pedal to the metal. Pick any cliche metaphor you want: Doom Eternal holds its slayer horns high and proud, refining just about everything Doom 2016 did well. It’s tense, frantic, and absolutely transcendent. Doom Eternal is metal as f***.

Ori and the Will of the Wisps is a stunning, emotional journey that feels natural, captivating, and will gently pull at your heart strings as the most engaging Metroidvania you've ever played.

Feral Interactive is here to drop us into the shoes of Amanda Ripley as she tries to survive the hell that awaits her aboard the Sevastopol space station. Come along as we review Alien: Isolation on the Nintendo Switch.

Disco Elysium is one of the best written games to date, subverting expectations and taking text-based games to the next level.

If you’re an auteur, you define genres. You set trends, push boundaries. Every project challenges expectations. You make something daring. Bold. Risky. You ignore expectations, and make something that changes the rules. You make Death Stranding.

Outer Wilds is a fun but somewhat aimless space exploration game with cute, cartoonish visuals, entertaining characters, and interesting lore. That said, the gameplay suffers from being too hands-off when guiding the player.

Modern Warfare has been re-envisioned and rebuilt from the ground up to offer fans an experience that brings folks across all platforms together. While Modern Warfare feels awfully familiar, there is no denying Infinity Ward has delivered a robust and memorable Call of Duty experience.

The Outer Worlds is a beautiful sandbox open world game with rich dialogue, colorful characters, explosive combat, and the most important wildcard in gaming: you.

After far too long a wait, it's time to return to Pandora and seek your fame and fortune, Vault Hunter! Borderlands 3 has arrived and is bigger and badder than ever before. Explore new worlds, meet familiar faces, and score that sweet loot.

Greedfall borrows core mechanics and features from some of gamings legendary RPGs and blends them across the backdrop of fantasy colonialism to craft an experience unlike any other so far, but is that a good thing?

Control is Remedy's most ambitious title yet, promising incredible technical quality and visual design alongside the visionary narrative style the studio is known for. What's more, Control is the best work they've ever done.

A Plague Tale: Innocence blends real historical horrors of war and disease with a gripping narrative, intense survival, and serious resource management in a haunting fable sure to tug at your heart.

With very little fanfare, Bend Studio has delivered a fun open world and mostly compelling story with Days Gone, even if the subject matter has been done to death.

I can’t get enough of Sekiro despite being terrible at playing it. It’s a great evolution of the Soulsborne experience with impressive new traversal and combat mechanics in a beautiful world loaded with odd characters and challenging enemies.

Devil May Cry 5 continues the path of Nero as he sets out with the iconic cast of the DMC franchise to save the world from global invasion by the demon Urizen.

Gasping for breath, your watch reminds you that you’ve got 3 minutes left on your last mask filter. You’re trapped deep underground, your battery is dwindling, and there are 6 rounds left in your rifle. Hope wanes. The walls close in around you, and somehow, illogically, you’re grinning ear to ear.

Capcom brings back Resident Evil 2 in a stunning remake that not only does the original game justice but also stands on its own feet as an outstanding title.

I loved looking at GRIS. I loved playing GRIS. I loved watching GRIS in motion. Is this the next industry breaking game? No, it’s a standard puzzle platformer at its core. It is however an emotional and beautiful journey, an adventure where every event is up to the player’s own interpretation.

Red Dead Redemption 2 is a masterpiece that transcends the current generation and elevates gameplay and storytelling to a level of which is unprecedented.

The brutally difficult Dark Souls: Remastered makes its way to the Switch and attempts to make use of Nintendo's unique controllers while simultaneously ignoring their most basic differences.