Bugs are bad. In real life and software alike, a houseful of bugs is a problem. Historically, gamers expect games to be bug-free enough that the bugs we do find are noteworthy. As games have gotten bigger, eliminating bugs has become a taller and taller order to the point where in recent years there's come a trend of janky, glitchy games where the unreliability is a feature rather than...
Zombie games. Just when you think the genre is dead, it rises back up again to bite another chunk out of your time. One of the best zombie games in years was 2013’s State of Decay, an Xbox/PC-exclusive game that took the horror out of survival horror and gave us a compelling survival simulator set in a zombie-infested post-apocalyptic landscape. Developer Undead Labs showed off the game...
Buying a new game is a big investment, but it doesn’t have to be – at least not if Microsoft has a say in it. For the price of roughly two console games, you can get immediate access to all of Microsoft’s new releases moving forward along with upwards of 100 other Xbox One and Xbox 360 games. Microsoft announced on Tuesday that all new Microsoft Studios-published games will hit its...
While Sony has the market cornered on console exclusives, Microsoft has the power game locked down. Whatever you play this year, if it plays on Xbox at all, it’s going to look better and play better on Xbox One X. If you’re rocking a 4K display in your living room, it’s the system to own. Each game listed here is also available on PC with the exception of a console-exclusive title...
The idea behind Undead Labs’ State of Decay was a really good one. Instead of putting a twist and a contrived story on top of the zombie apocalypse, it simply dropped us into that world and asked us to survive. There’s no president’s daughter to protect, no virus to cure, nothing like that. The biggest challenge is surviving another day. For all the love Telltale’s Walking Dead games...