Action/Adventure, Shooter
Destroy All Humans!

After millenniums of squelching inferior races, a species of bulbous-headed extraterrestrials find themselves unable to propagate. Now they need our …

Action/Adventure
Below

This minimalist, buzz-worthy game is for players who don’t want any help figuring out how to survive on a deserted …

Arcade/Platform
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Is this game the ultimate expression of Nintendo’s fan-fave fighting franchise? Or does it ultimately have some problems?

Arcade/Platform
Battle Princess Madelyn

This retro game features battling princess and shambling ghouls. Do you want them lurching through your living room?

Shooter
Just Cause 4

Sure, the protagonist here is heroic. But can we really praise a game that strives to make graphic bloodletting seem …

Arcade/Platform
Spyro Reignited Trilogy

Activision gives the classic Spyro games a facelift, breathing new fire into this dragony franchise’s old gameplay.

Action/Adventure, Combat, Puzzle
Darksiders III

Sin is given flesh in this slashing apocalyptic game. But biblical answers ain’t in the script. (Or the same county.)

Horror/Suspense
Bendy and the Ink Machine

This runaway indie hit is cute on the outside but far less cuddly than it initially appears once you get …

Action/Adventure
Pokémon Let’s Go Pikachu

Nintendo’s latest Pokémon game (for the Switch) hopes to capitalize on the wild success of the Pokémon Go app.

Action/Adventure
Fallout 76

Fallout 76 takes its bloody post-apocalyptic story online, creating new problems for an already problematic franchise.

Strategy
Hasbro Game Night for Nintendo Switch

Habro and Nintendo have teamed up to offer a handheld version of not one, but three classic board games.

Action/Adventure
Red Dead Redemption 2

A hundred hours wandering through this M-rated digital Wild West will leave behind plenty o’ scars.

Action/Adventure
SoulCalibur VI

This fighting game offers accessible combat, interesting quests and … enough T-rated content to make parents think twice.

Combat
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4

No story mode and a Fortnite-like multiplayer options change the CoD landscape … and not for the better.

Action/Adventure, Role-Playing
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey

It may be a new day and a new Odyssey, but it’s, frankly, the same problematic Assassin’s Creed.