Some rats won't listen to reason. Just the other day, I met one at the top of a flight of stairs who asked me if the zombie-like creatures crucified below us were any danger to him, and I assured him they most certainly were. But the punk got it in …
Read More »The Flash: Get Up to Speed on Flashpoint With These Comics
With news that Warner Bros.'s upcoming speedster movie will be titled The Flash: Flashpoint, we’re digging into the comics to get a better idea of what to expect.Flashpoint is the name of writer Geoff Johns and artist Andy Kubert’s 2011 DC Comics crossover that put the Flash at the dead …
Read More »Transformers: The Last Knight Review
A film primarily about good robots fighting naughty robots has no business being two hours and twenty-eight minutes long. Worse, Transformers: The Last Knight is so convoluted and drawn-out that it feels like double that amount of time has passed. Just like the rest of the series, Michael Bay’s fifth …
Read More »Prey Review
[Note: When Prey launched, I hit a game-breaking bug on PC that prevented me from recommending it. That’s now been patched, and so has this review. It’s now updated to cover our experiences on all platforms. It was initially scored as a 4.0 on PC.] With a sophisticated setting built …
Read More »Mr. Shifty Review
The heist at the heart of Mr. Shifty kicks off with an explosive bang, like a pulpy late-‘80s action movie. You play the role of a mysterious super-powered criminal whose nifty ability to teleport across short distances and punch unsuspecting foes in the face keeps Mr. Shifty’s momentum going despite …
Read More »Nintendo Switch Review
[Editor's Note: The Switch has changed a lot since this review was written, so we've done a new Switch review for 2018.] The Nintendo Switch isn’t unlike a NASA spacecraft, in that nearly every part of it has been specially designed to pull double or even triple duty. The system’s …
Read More »Snipperclips: Cut It Out Together! Review
The key to Snipperclips: Cut It Out Together! lies in cutting your own characters to pieces to fit whatever colorful, lighthearted challenges it throws at you. That idea, applied to a series of peculiar but engaging objectives, consistently leads to clever and oftentimes hilarious use of this puzzler’s central mechanic. …
Read More »Just Dance 2017 Review
I’m sure I’m not alone in often feeling uncomfortable and awkward whenever I have to dance in public, but that doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy it. Just Dance 2017 creates a social atmosphere where every dancer takes queues from a screen, and the embarrassment from utter lack of coordination is …
Read More »1-2-Switch Review
1-2-Switch is a totally bizarre party game that made me laugh much harder than similar collections like Wario Ware or Mario Party, but I’m still not sure if I was laughing at it or with it. The assortment of 28 diverse mini-games seems to exist to show off the fidelity …
Read More »Fire Emblem Heroes Review
While playing Fire Emblem games like Awakening and Birthright, I always thought it was cool that you could recruit heroes from the past to help out in combat. Because these characters came as DLC add-ons they rarely interacted with the story directly, but knowing my favorite Swordmaster or Pegasus Knight …
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