Game Reviews4.8/10
Homefront’s Occupation Story Still Lands, Even If Its Campaign Runs Out Early
Homefront review: Kaos Studios' 2011 shooter has a striking Korean-occupation premise, a short campaign and a multiplayer mode that outlived it.
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Every game we have scored, from the NES library to current releases.
Game Reviews8/10
New Super Mario Bros. U Plays Better Than Anyone Remembers and Sticks in Nobody’s Head
New Super Mario Bros. U review: the Wii U launch platformer that played it safe, sold 24 million copies, and outlasted its own console.
Game Reviews7.8/10
Madden NFL 25: A 25th-Anniversary Split Across Two Generations
Madden NFL 25 shipped twice in 2013 — PS3 and Xbox 360 on Impact, PS4 and Xbox One on the new Ignite engine, with two covers and two builds.
Game Reviews7.4/10
Scribblenauts Unmasked’s DC Crossover Still Holds Up 13 Years Later
Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure (2013) sent Maxwell's magic notepad through the DC Universe. A review of 5th Cell's licensed crossover.
Game Reviews7.3/10
WWE 2K14 Reuses Its Predecessor’s Core While Betting Everything on a WrestleMania Mode
WWE 2K14 review: the first WWE 2K game and last with the scratch logo, built on WWE '13's engine with a 30 Years of WrestleMania campaign.
Game Reviews7.4/10
Styx: Master of Shadows Review — A Stealth Sandbox Worth Learning
Styx: Master of Shadows review — Cyanide's 2014 stealth game makes you small, patient and afraid, and its clone mechanic still holds up years later.
Game Reviews7.4/10
One Piece: Unlimited World Red Review: Thirty-Six Games In, the Fifth Unlimited Entry
One Piece: Unlimited World Red hit 3DS in Japan in 2013, spread to four platforms in 2014, and earned a 7.4/10 aggregate before a 2017 port.
Game Reviews7.9/10
Heroes of the Storm: Blizzard’s Accessible MOBA, Reviewed
Blizzard's free-to-play MOBA Heroes of the Storm turns 10: 89 heroes, 15 battlegrounds, 20-minute matches, shared XP and talents instead of items.
Game Reviews8.6/10
MLB The Show 19: Fourteenth Entry, Bryce Harper Cover, 8.6 Aggregate
MLB The Show 19: the 2019 PlayStation 4 baseball sim with Bryce Harper on the cover, five modes, a full broadcast booth, and an 8.6 IGDB critic score.
Game Reviews7.6/10
Valiant Hearts Still Says More About the First World War Than Most Battlefield Games
Valiant Hearts: The Great War review — Ubisoft Montpellier's WWI puzzle adventure still lands 12 years on, carried by art, history and a dog named Walt.
Game Reviews7.5/10
Papo & Yo turned a designer’s alcoholic father into a puzzle-platformer, 14 years on
Papo & Yo review: Minority's semi-autobiographical puzzle platformer about a boy and his monster, scored 7.5 of 10.
Game Reviews7.3/10
Alone With You: A Dying Colony, a Broken Pod, and the Dead You Must Rebuild
Alone With You review: a dying colony, one broken escape pod, and dead specialists you rebuild to escape. Benjamin Rivers' 2016 sci-fi romance scores 7.3/10.