Atomic Heart Review – Bum Ticker
As an ambitious first game, Atomic Heart wears its influence on its sleeve, mostly taking from BioShock, but you can ...
Sean Mesler
The Last of Us HBO Episode 5 Review: The New Bar
The Last of Us has always promised to be an emotional story about loss and love in a post apocalyptic ...
The Last of Us HBO Series Episode 4 Review: Puns and Bullets
After what I felt to be a strong episode that did very little to move the story and characters forward, ...
The Last of Us HBO Series Episode Three Review: Well-Made Diversion
The Last of Us series, thus far, has show how to faithfully adapt the story of the game while also ...
Forspoken Review – Fits and Starts
Storytelling in video games has been around since the advent of the medium. From the earliest text adventures such as ...
The Last of Us HBO Series Episode Two Review: Perfectly Terrifying
Episode 2 of HBO’s The Last of Us series “Infected” is the perfect balance of expanding the story as well ...
The Last of Us HBO Series Episode One Review – Same Great Story, but Different
Thirty or so minutes into the debut episode of The Last of Us, we’re presented an almost interstitial short ...
MP1st Top 10 Games of 2022 and Game of the Year Winner
As 2022 draws to a close, one thing remains clear, and that is we are still feeling the effect of what ...
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Review – Pinpoint Accuracy (PS5)
The campaign for Infinity Ward’s 2019 reboot of Modern Warfare struck a near-perfect balance of being grounded and providing the ...
Steelrising Review: Mechanically Sound (PS5)
The Soulslike subgenre has been growing year over year with many developers large and small throwing their hat into the ...
Thymesia Review: Souls-lite Done Right (PS5)
We’re full blown into the sub-genre FromSoftware created; the “soulslike.” Generally, this means a game that isn’t developed ...
The Quarry Review – Not Up to Snuff (PS5)
Despite existing since 2008, Supermassive Games truly didn’t hit the big time until their 2014 PlayStation exclusive, Until Dawn. An adventure ...
Evil Dead the Game Review: Low on Gas (PS5)
The Evil Dead is one of the most enduring horror franchises of all time. Three main films: The Evil Dead, ...
Trek to Yomi Review: Weighted Presentation (PS5)
Give everyone in the art and graphics departments a raise because that’s where Flying Wild Hog’s Trek to ...
Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands Review: Not So Wonderful (PS5)
Tiny Tina has always been one of my favorite characters in the Borderlands games — a child that is not only ...
Elden Ring Review – The Elden Lord of Souls Games (PS5)
FromSoftware’s Elden Ring has a lot to live up to. The studio’s Soulsborne games have a rabid and ...
Rainbow Six Extraction Review (PS5): Quarantine Required
In recent years Ubisoft has been making some odd decisions with their IP, most notably their Tom Clancy games. Until ...
MP1st’s Top 10 Most Anticipated Games of 2022
With 2021 in the rearview, it’s time to look ahead towards 2022! Here are the MP1st staff’s top 10 most ...
Elden Ring Technical Test Impressions – Accessible Souls
At this point, when FromSoftware has a game coming out, it’s an event. Fans and detractors alike can’t ...
Back 4 Blood Review (PS5) – It’s Left 4 Dead 3 and That’s Awesome
One time playing Left 4 Dead Versus mode on the Dead Air campaign, I was down to a sliver of health, ...