Nioh champions the joy of combat and the fun of overcoming a challenge. It owes a debt to Dark Souls, yes, but manages to step out of its considerable shadow, too.
After only 3 episodes, APB feels instantly forgettable. There's only so much drone action you can stomach before the wooden characters start to ring hollow.
Resident Evil 7 is a classic reinvention of the revered franchise. Even an overblown story can't derail a triumphant return to form for the masters of horror.
A slick examination of our modern neuroses, season 6 of Homeland gets off to a strong start, but only time will tell whether it can recapture the glory of its formative years.
Thank God 2016 is over, eh? Notable video game releases aside, it's better if we move forward and forget the tragedy that was the past twelve months, burying our head in the nearest console and forgetting that the world has gone mad. To help rid our brains of last year's memories, we've compiled a list of 10 video games that you need to start getting excited for this year.
It's not the festive season if you're not racking up credit card debt on relatives you see twice a year, and if you've got games to buy, that means you'll be stopping by Best Buy and Gamestop and dropping full whack on $60 titles that don't warrant the asking price.
If the promotional footage was to be believed, No Man's Sky was going to be the best and most important game of all-time, breaking tons of new ground in the process. Unfortunately, what we eventually got was a competent flight simulator married to a beautiful world... and little else. Once the hype died down, developer Hello Games were subjected to the sort of wrath the likes of which we've never seen, and it was truly interesting to watch.
The Amnesia Collection fails to revamp the original visuals and lacks the bonus content to entice existing fans. But for newcomers, this three-course dish of blood, guts and horror quickens the pulse like few other games can.
