Batman: Arkham Asylum review

Batman: Arkham Asylum Review — Trapped in Gotham’s Madhouse, and Loving Every Minute

Seventeen years later, Rocksteady’s trip into Gotham’s madhouse remains one of the most atmospheric nights Batman ever spent in a video game. There is a moment early in Batman: Arkham Asylum when you realize the game understands something… Read More

Metal Gear Solid PlayStation Review

Metal Gear Solid: The Night PlayStation Grew Up

Plenty of PS1 games were already demonstrating what Sony’s little gray console could do with 3D worlds, cinematic presentation, and CD-quality audio. Metal Gear Solid pulled those pieces together and made the PlayStation feel like it was capable of something different—a game that could be tense, funny, melodramatic, politically charged, mechanically inventive, and completely aware that you were sitting there holding a controller.

8 Retro Games That Were So Far Ahead of Their Time

8 Retro Games So Far Ahead of Their Time, the Industry Had to Catch Up

These were the games that experimented with living worlds, player freedom, stealth systems, online competition, cinematic storytelling, and genres that barely had names yet. They were not always the smoothest, easiest, or most commercially successful releases on the shelf. In several cases, their ambition ran straight into the limitations of the hardware.