It’s back to World War II for Activision’s big first-person shooter series with Call of Duty: Vanguard.

After a game set in the modern-day and another set during the cold war, this year’s entry, from Activation’s Sledgehammer Games, returns to World War II. It is, after all, the scenario that the series originated with and the one likely to cause the least offense. After all, as everybody knows, the only good Nazi is a dead Nazi. Continue reading Call of Duty: Vanguard PC review →

Marvel’s Guardian’s of the Galaxy is a single-player third-person action-adventure game that puts players in the shoes of Peter Quill AKA Star-Lord. The game is a reimagining that sits outside the continuity of both the Marvel Studios movies and the comic books it is based on. Similar to Rocksteady’s Batman Arkham games, Guardian’s of the Galaxy takes the characters’ established mythology and reinvents it for the game. Continue reading Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy PC review →

Age of Empires IV continues the much-lauded lineage of Microsoft’s veteran real-time strategy games.

Age of Empires II holds a big place in my heart as one of the first PC games that really captured my imagination in a big way. As great as the likes of its contemporaries, Unreal Tournament and Quake III Arena were, I found Age of Empires II to be a game that I couldn’t put down, and I played it for years. Continue reading Age of Empires IV PC review →