Combat, Strategy
XCOM 2

It’s twenty years after the original XCOM story, and our alien foes have some nasty plans up their space suit …

Puzzle, Strategy
The Witness

The gamemakers are asking players to think about … thinking. And that’s something you don’t regularly encounter when you pick …

Action/Adventure, Puzzle, Shooter
LEGO Marvel Avengers

There’s more mass destruction on display here than in, say, a Batman LEGO game of yesteryear. But at least the …

Puzzle
Life Is Strange

This intriguing-but-flawed M-rated thriller earnestly ponders the influence of our choices from the perspective of a time-warping teen girl.

Puzzle, Sim, Strategy
Oxenfree

As much as this might sound like a Nancy Drew mystery, it’s actually something a little different.

Role-Playing
That Dragon, Cancer

That Dragon, Cancer is more of an experience than a game. An unforgettable one.

Rhythm/Music
Amplitude

This remake of the 2003 rhythm game tosses out the Top 40 tunes while giving a high-def update to the …

Combat, Shooter, Strategy
Rainbow Six: Siege

Rainbow Six Siege is one of a new breed of online shooters that’s all about short, intense, close quarters combat …

Action/Adventure, Combat, Shooter
Just Cause 3

The latest entry in the Just Cause franchise is a lot like Grand Theft Auto … only with tanks, grenades …

Shooter
Star Wars: Battlefront

Star Wars: Battlefront certainly pushes the nostalgia button. Hard.

Action/Adventure, Combat, Puzzle, Shooter
Rise of the Tomb Raider

The newly rebooted Lara returns with bigger adventure and, unfortunately, bigger piles of corpses, too.

Action/Adventure, Combat, Role-Playing, Shooter, Sim, Strategy
Fallout 4

Games used to fit into specific categories. Fallout 4 fills something closer to an “all of the above” slot. For …

Action/Adventure, Combat, Shooter
Call of Duty: Black Ops III

The thing you don’t really get anymore with the Call of Duty games is any sense of, well, duty.

Action/Adventure, Combat, Shooter
Halo 5: Guardians

Master Chief is back to fight off the alien invaders. But he’s not the only one. And what about Cortana?

Action/Adventure, Combat
Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate

In a sentence, it’s everything we’re accustomed to confronting in an Assassin’s Creed game … and more.