What to expect at E3 2019

We're barely a week away from the start of E3 2019 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles California! This year's event may be missing one of its stalwarts now that Sony has announced that it will not have a presence but there will be news aplent...

Our favorite games of 2018

It didn't take long for us to declare 2017 a pretty great year for games, with a spectacular roster that included Super Mario Odyssey, Wolfenstein: The New Colossus and Assassin's Creed Origins. In our roundup last December we also listed what we wer...

‘Yakuza 6’ makes Tokyo’s red-light district virtually real

I'm a relatively late fan of Sega's famed Yakuza franchise. It was the 2015 'prequel', Yakuza 0 on the PS4, that got me hooked: it was the series' first title to be localized in Chinese, which helped me understand its rich storyline on the humble beg...

What we’re playing: ‘Yakuza 0’ and ‘Reigns: Her Majesty’

Welcome back to Gaming IRL, a monthly segment where several editors talk about what they've been playing in their downtime. This month, we spend too much time taking photos in Assassin's Creed Origins, lose ourselves in Yakuza 0's side stories, and a...