Picture this: You’re trapped in a sterile environment loaded with obstacles and traps to overcome. The halting voice of a computer outlines the task ahead of you. You have no weapon to keep yourself protected–just a couple of devices that you use to manipulate the environment. If you’ve played Portal, this is a familiar setup, and [...]

In Divinity II, the hunter becomes the hunted. You begin this third-person role-playing game as a newly recruited dragon slayer, eager to join a bloodthirsty party tracking down a fearsome lizard. Soon, however, a turn of events transforms you into what you once reviled: a dragon knight who can slice through enemies on the ground [...]

King’s Bounty: Armored Princess does more of the same really well. The stand-alone expansion to 2008’s cult hit King’s Bounty: The Legend adds virtually nothing to the original’s strategy role-playing game formula, but the game does all of the by-the-numbers stuff so perfectly that you can’t help but love the deja vu. While developer Katauri [...]

Aion
Upon entering Aion’s world for the first time, you can’t help but notice how beautiful it is, and for the first few hours it seems that as much attention has been lavished on the engaging quests and interesting characters as has on the CryEngine-powered visuals. Play past the first dozen or so character levels though, [...]

Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter
If you were putting together a list of the PC first-person shooters that most deserve to be remade, chances are pretty good that Serious Sam: The First Encounter would not make the cut. And this is not an insult. The original 2001 Croteam game has aged so well that it [...]