One AGM-114 Hellfire air-to-ground missile costs the United States military around $70,000 each time a drone operator pulls a trigger, which, the army boasts, has happened more than 11,000 times since 2001. It’s this colossal expenditure of resources that drives the gears of the war machine: usage creates demand, and demand creates billions of dollars […]

Find out which Xbox One title dominates the next generation competition this year.

Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag is a big game. At any moment you might be running across rooftops in Havanna trying to catch a pickpocket, dueling with a great white shark at sea, or simply gambling away your last few pieces of gold in a no-name tavern on a no-name Caribbean island. But what makes […]

What’s most amazing about Grand Theft Auto V is the way that it manages to be both tremendous in scope and precise about detail, creating a massive world that offers an incredible assortment of fun stuff to do yet feels like so much more than just a video game playground. From its ritzy downtown neighborhoods […]

Find out which PS4 title dominates the next generation competition this year.

Earlier this year, if you had asked Assassin’s Creed fans what their favorite entry in the series was, most would have told you Assassin’s Creed II. Sure, you could make the argument that Brotherhood is the more refined game, and no one would call you crazy for that. But the leap forward from the first […]

Huntsman: The Orphanage prompts many questions. Who is the huntsman? How did 12 orphans vanish without a trace from a rural Illinois orphanage in 1897? For that matter, where can I pick up that sweet smartphone that talks to the dead and never loses a charge? Huntsman doesn’t answer all of these questions, but some […]

What would you do to save your friend? That is the question asked in Gomo, where a greedy alien kidnaps your dog and demands that you retrieve a mystical crystal artifact within two hours, or else. What this mysterious red crystal does, I never found out. All I know is that it is imbued with […]

Dog days ahead in the opening minutes of PC adventure game Gomo.

Just ahead of the full NPD results, Sony said that PS4 was the “top-selling next-gen platform for both hardware and software in November.” However, Microsoft countered with the claim that for the same month, the Xbox One was “the fastest selling console on the market in the U.S.” After nine days of availability, the Xbox […]