#metacritic

#metacritic

In recent years, a lot of embargo restrictions have become so sweeping that it's sometimes difficult for critics to actually get into the meat of what does or doesn't work about a game, and simply have to gesture at it in their reviews.

On the planet Carcosa, mangled, blackened trees and crimson flowers take root next to the ruins of some ancient alien civilisation, flanked by statues contorted in pain, tearing at their marble skin.

The film opens with a tense subway scene where a young mother faces harassment for bringing her baby onto a crowded train, highlighting societal attitudes towards children in public spaces.

Mortal Kombat's introduction of 'juggling' into fighting game conventions and its iconic fatalities earned it a well-deserved spot on the Mount Rushmore of fighting games.

The Ultimate plan pricing will decrease from $29.99 to $22.99, but it will no longer include new Call of Duty titles at launch, which will now be available a year later.

The player ambles through an eerily underpopulated subway station, which gradually comes to resemble a metro-themed infinity loop—a maddeningly repetitive circle of mid-transit hell.

Timber Rush is about numbers going up in the crudest way imaginable, a clicker game that barely even features clicking, in which you move your woodcutter side to side as increasing numbers of increasingly silly logs fly around the screen.

One Battle After Another dominated the awards race and even threw in some box-office points as well. Seven of the top-ten movies were Best Picture nominees at the Oscars, for what it's worth.

Management sims are all about decisions; in News Tower, my first decision was the name of my newspaper. This being Nieman Lab, I decided to call my newspaper The Experiment. Some things about the game are all too familiar to anyone who's paid any attention to the state of journalism lately. When you first start the game, the paper is struggling: You have a few options for getting out of the hole.