Imagine that: a company in the business of publishing games just admitted that losing game developers might hurt their ability to make games.

No matter how much you love videogames – and I bloody love videogames – the professional demands of the game review tax your mental faculties, push your energies to their limits and challenge you to play better, work harder and write smarter.

What separates Mark of the Ninja from other stealth games is the degree of precision by which it has been crafted. Every mistake you make is yours and yours alone, as Mark of the Ninja leaves none of its design to randomly generated chance.

In Rainbow Six: Siege, there’s a steep learning curve to climb to become a valuable asset to a team. Map knowledge, Operator mastery, easy and quick call outs - all of these are essential to improving at Siege, and the plethora of necessary skills are a major reason why this is one of the growing esports titles today.

“This remake honors almost everything that made the original such a great sequel. But a few small changes alter it in a deeply fundamental way. “

Deep Sky Derelicts is a game that rewards you for being deliberate even if it never challenges you in complexity.

After a few walls of lore and dialogue and the requisite tutorials, MU Origin 2 introduces you to what might be its best (and probably worst) feature, a criticism probably applicable to most mobile MMORPGs of the same mold: an autopilot button.

The moving nature of God of War’s storytelling is fairly well known by now, but it also retains the hyperviolent character of its predecessors while relinquishing their perversity and tackiness.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is now free to play and now has a battle royale game. A game mode that grabs the core concept of battle royale while giving it that CS:GO spin.

I updated my Guild Wars 2 client and tripped into the rabbit hole once again, going through the Path of Fire expansion one more time and loving it.

At the end of a depressing year filled with scandal, regulatory threat, closed studios, labor malpractice, and broken launches, The Game Awards gave us some hope for 2019 in the form of big announcements.

Playing Prey on hard feels right. The tension is constant but the amount of resources available is enough for me to see this through. The story is intriguing but feels like it could fall flat anytime now, but that's okay. I’m loving my stay in Talos 1, and I’ll probably be here longer than expected.