There are terrible bad games that you should avoid at all costs, mediocre bad games that disappear from your memory when they leave your field of view, and then there is the difficult-to-define good bad game.
We traveled to Chengdu, China, to check out Eclipse Glow Games’ debut game, Tides of Annihilation, and talk with the team about mixing Chinese action with the Legend of King Arthur.
Gears of War: E-Day innovates in all the right ways while keeping the core and heart of the franchise intact, stamping the series’ return with one of, if not its best, entries to date.
Though there’s substantially less content and replayability than its primary contemporary, Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds is concise and effective in its mission, offering the most well-rounded kart racer of the year.
Hollow Knight: Silksong is beautiful, nuanced, and deeply rewarding, but it’s also tuned to be grueling in ways that aren’t always fun in the traditional sense.
Though its narrative and level design sometimes get in the way, the entire package is still a setpiece-filled action romp and one of the year’s best shooters.
Its adorable aesthetic and wordless storytelling make this brief adventure one worth sharing with family or a friend, but its distant camera angle and visual filters were frustrating obstacles on an otherwise picturesque road.
Though not explicitly called a roguelike mode by Nintendo, Emerald Rush allows DK and Pauline to partake in runs where they have to collect emeralds in a certain amount of time.
Though many of the series’ core elements remain intact, Gearbox has refined and reconfigured them in such ways that Borderlands 4 rises beyond anything the series has accomplished to this point.
