Top down shooters are all about dodging enemy projectiles and making sure the enemy doesn’t dodge yours. At the end of the day, those narratives about great wars and piloting giant Japanese robots are merely façades made to hide that similarity between all shooters that have ever existed. Once you rip that pretence away, what [...]

As a break from all that restaurant-dashing, crop-growing, puzzle-solving madness, Reflexive takes on the adrenaline rush experience in a more conventional way: with spaceships and plenty of guns. Swarm Gold is a remake of the original Swarm they created back in 1998, and with a word like “Gold” in the title, we were really expecting [...]

Nearly every boy that I have ever known has at one time or another wanted to be a fighter pilot. Whether it’s in the first history class that they learn of the Red Baron or when they see the combat footage from WWII fighters, eventually, they all want to be in that fighter plane, feeling [...]