Ubisoft’s Far Cry series is, admittedly, one I’ve had trouble engaging with. The protagonists are typically uninteresting, faceless dudes who seem to exist purely as virtual bodies for players to use to navigate the game’s astoundingly gorgeous environments. Far Cry’s “heroes” are merely avatars, in the purest...

Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed is a series of incredibly ambitious titles that always fall slightly short of true excellence and “classic” status. The original game was a revolution in free-running gameplay, but the missions made Tupperware parties look interesting. Assassin’s Creed 2 vastly improved on its predecessor...

So if you’ve been trolling video game blogs at all over the past couple of months, you totally saw that whacked-out Hitman: Absolution trailer. You know, the one with the Kill Bill style shot of a group of assassins walking through the rain to a building to kill Agent 47, except instead of a bunch of hip, cold-as-ice killers in black, IO...

Treyarch’s Call of Duty franchise is like marmite: you either love it or you hate it. In some ways that makes it kind of pointless to write this review because haters gonna hate and fanboys will be all over Call of Duty no matter what. Call of Duty: Black Ops II turned me into a Call of Duty convert, so if you’re a hater, read this...