After a three-year hiatus following Kirby: Return to Dreamland on Wii, Kirby returns to platforming on Nintendo 3DS in Kirby Triple Deluxe. What looks like the same old thing on the outside actually hides an expertly crafted game within.

Murdered: Soul Suspect has the makings of a fascinatingly macabre video game detective story but fails to flesh out its ghostly characters and world.

Mario Kart 8 is the best Mario Kart we’ve ever reviewed, and may go down as everyone’s new favorite kart racer, despite a couple irksome problems with Nintendo's online services.

Addictive and smartly crafted, Cellar Door Games' Rogue Legacy is a beguiling, modern action game that hooks you with swift action and keeps you stuck with smart character building.

Ultra Street Fighter IV, the first major iteration on Street Fighter IV in four years, is the best version of Capcom's brawler but it strains against the technology housing it.

Halfway between The Benny Hill Show and Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno is Akiba's Trip, an anime action RPG with surprisingly progressive ideas about sex and materialism.

For anyone longing for a game as focused on questing, looting, and leveling as the original Diablo, Ultimate Evil Edition encapsulates that style while packaging all the best of Diablo III in one place.

Four years after Metro 2033 hit Xbox 360, 4A Games delivers the definitive version of its post-apocalyptic adventure series, unifying the original and its successor Last Light in both visual and play style.

Super Smash Bros. for 3DS proves Nintendo's brawler can work on handhelds, a beautifully mad fighter that both embodies the best of the series' past while adding to it in essential ways.

Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call is a wonderfully odd celebration of the many composers, both famous and obscure, who have worked on the Final Fantasy series for more than 25 years.

The first Assassin's Creed built specifically for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One hosts a remarkable recreation of Revolution-era Paris. As impressive as its city is, though, Assassin's Creed Unity is equally devoid of soul.

LittleBigPlanet 3 attempts to evolve the series by adding new characters and toys to its platforming, but fails to mix its story and creative tools into a focused effort.

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U turns out to be much more than the big, beautiful version of Smash 3DS, with a variety of new modes and larger scale fights that evolve the way Nintendo's fighting series plays on a fundamental level.

An unlikely spinoff of Super Mario 3D World, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker is an old-fashioned puzzle game drawn in beautiful modern colors.

Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth is an excellent game for anyone looking to mainline old-style dungeon crawling, but series fans that want involved storytelling should think twice before taking the plunge.

After 16 years, Grim Fandango has been resurrected. Rather than completely overhaul it, Double Fine has smartly preserved one of Tim Schafer and LucasArts’ best works, letting its resonant life in the land of the dead shine.

Left 4 Dead creator Turtle Rock Studios returns with a fresh take on cooperative play, but the slow pace of forced progression hinders the four-versus-one action.

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze is a very well-designed platformer that ultimately fails to strike the right balance between difficult and frustrating. If you have a Switch, it's the best place to play, thanks to a new easier "Funky Mode" option and the option of playing the game on the go.

Minecraft mastermind Markus Persson wants to make his next sandbox game a space simulator that's equal parts Firefly and Elite.

The world went without a new XCOM strategy game for nearly fifteen years before Firaxis made XCOM: Enemy Unknown, but just one year later the team's delivered Enemy Within an expansion that makes such significant changes as to almost be a full sequel.

After nearly two decades, Oddworld Inhabitants re-imagines Oddworld: Abe's Odyssey. Expanded and rebalanced with fewer cumbersome barriers between the player and its endearing, beautiful-ugly world, New 'N' Tasty is the definitive version of the game.

Double Fine was one of the first companies bidding on THQ's properties. The studio is still at work, trying to win back the console publishing rights to two of its games.

Fresh off their rated M for Mature battle royale in Injustice: Gods Among Us, Batman and company are showing up in Scribblenauts.

With the set top box-style Next Xbox, Microsoft will make television and video services, not video games, the center of its business.

Seven years after Ragnar Tørnquist first announced Dreamfall Chapters, new studio Red Thread Games shares the first tantalizing glimpse into the sequel to The Longest Journey and Dreamfall.

Sony cancelled showing The Interview in theaters due to terrorist threats, but we caught a press screening of the controversial movie beforehand. And the terrorists might have done Sony a favor.

Dragon Age III: Inquisitor is the official name for the next entry in BioWare's medieval RPG series.

Nintendo extended an olive branch to its downtrodden fans with a new Super Smash Bros., debuting new characters like Mega Man and the Wii Fit Trainer.

Series creator Masahiro Sakurai says that the new Super Smash Bros. can't rely on increasing scale to impress players.

Super Smash Bros Brawl for Nintendo Wii disappointed due to lackluster online play. Super Smash Bros 4 for Nintendo Wii U and Nintendo 3DS will fix that problem.

Masahiro Sakurai revealed that his new Super Smash Bros. won't have a story mode or cutscenes. That might be a good thing.

Do we really need another dark fantasy action RPG? Yes we do, according to City Interactive, and their game Lords of the Fallen makes a compelling case.

The sexy witch covered with guns named Bayonetta may not be the hero Nintendo's Wii U needs, but she's certainly the one it deserves. We go hands-on at E3 2013.

Former Interplay creatives Brian Fargo and Chris Avellone discuss the unique challenges they face in building crowdfunded games like Wasteland 2 for the modern world.