Latest articles by Nova Smith
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 review – CoD at its most obnoxious
Blopped the ball All I could think while playing was, "God, was it really always like this?"
The best Cyberpunk 2077 mods
Updated It's a whole new world for Cyberpunk 2077 mods after update 2.0 and Phantom Liberty.
Splitgate 2 review: A fine F2P time waster, but not a revolution
Portal Royale It doesn't make FPS great again.
Monster Hunter Wilds' new gyro controls are a fantastic option for disabled and able-bodied players alike
High Ranked Wilds is the most accessible Monster Hunter to date, in more ways than one.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 review
THAT'S BETTER A belligerently enjoyable sequel with stellar multiplayer and a campaign that can't stack up to the greats.
Concord review: Out of touch
Failure to launch Concord's third-rate heroes aren't up to the competition.
Delta Force is an awkward marriage of Battlefield and Call of Duty, but every once in awhile it all clicks
In Between Delta Force hasn't quite figured out how to take advantage of Battlefield's scale with its twitchier, COD-inspired shooting.
This new co-op horde shooter on Steam is so bad it made me feel physically ill
don't bite We do not recommend trying EvilVEvil.
New expansion Forges of Corruption is Warhammer 40K: Boltgun at its most gloriously, gruesomely holy
Daemonic Get ready to purge all over again.
New Kingmakers trailer looks like Mount & Blade with an M1 Abrams modded in
news Unleash a modern arsenal against hordes of knights.
Hold fast: Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader is getting its mutinous first expansion
news New DLC serves up new xenophobic bladedancer allies and "Aliens"-esque infestations.
Super Mario 64 gets a Mario Maker-like romhack that runs on original hardware
news Mario Builder 64 is "a toolbox letting you fulfill all of your SM64 dreams," say its creators.
Hand-drawn adventure game comes to Steam after being dropped from Apple Arcade, creator laments the way games 'can just vanish' today
news "This is the sad thing about the way our kind of creative mediums are going: works don't have any kind of permanence."
A new native port of Majora's Mask might change how we play N64 games on our PCs
news A new way to play a fan favorite.
Cyberpunk 2077's quest lead says it's a story 'about terminal illness,' and playing it while staring down the barrel of one was the most intense RPG experience I've ever had
The reaper Playing a game where your character's on borrowed time, while you might also be on borrowed time.
How I turned my MIDI instruments into the ultimate rhythm game controllers
On Tempo Whether you want to embarrass Elden Ring's Malenia with a synthesizer or get the rhythm game arcade experience at home, MIDI is the answer.
This joyfully chaotic Halo total conversion mod for classic Battlefront 2 is a perfect complement to the Bungie campaigns
Other Wars The Human-Covenant War, as rendered in Star Wars Battlefront in 2, has reignited my love for the struggling series.
TIE Fighters, ranked
Ionized An ode to our favorite tinfoil spacecraft and its many cool, bizarre, and outright hideous permutations.
It was another great year for boomer shooters, but can we call them something else now?
New Wave The best shooters of the year evoked the '90s and '00s, but were full of clever design and fresh ideas.
Retro FPS Beyond Sunset is a precision-crafted cyberpunk potpourri of all the great megawads that came before it
neon fights One more great boomer shooter sneaks in before the end of 2023.
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora review
The Frontier is Closed A Pandora's box of technical issues.
10 tips to help you conquer the Mortal Realms in Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin
Ghur-eat What you need to know about armies, upgrades, and taking territory.
Warhammer: Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin review: A clumsy RTS devoid of Warhammer's characteristic grim darkness
Marred An RTS that doesn't pass the morale test.
