Andrea is an editor at Game Rant, where she has been writing professionally about video games for nearly five years. She became a gamer for life at 7, thanks to a copy of Pokemon Red and her Game Boy.

Though games like Dark Souls and Cuphead have been criticized for being difficult for the sake of being difficult, there’s true merit in a game that feels impossible to beat when you first pick it up.

Returnal’s core conceit is about breaking the cycle. Selene crashes her ship on the mysterious—and dangerous—planet of Atropos, and every time she dies, she is returned to the crash site. The world ...

The art of building a quality roguelite is in the sleight of hand. In order to finish the game, the player needs to improve their skill. But that is a tedious and laborious process. A good roguelite, ...

Housemarque made a name for itself developing high-quality arcade titles like Super Stardust HD, Resogun and Dead Nation. After more than a decade mastering the genre, Housemarque is taking a bold new ...

Jason learned to read playing Pokemon Crystal on the Game Boy Color, and hasn't looked back. He received a Journalism degree at California State University, Fullerton while working on news coverage ...

Housemarque’s new game follows what first appears to be a relatively simple premise on the surface level. You play as Selene, a practical, steely astronaut who crash lands on the planet Atropos with ...

First released on the PlayStation 5 back in 2021, Housemarque’s AAA roguelike, Returnal, blew my expectations out of the water with its blend of hard-hitting action, strategic depth, and an atmosphere ...

Returnal has started receiving its first reviews nearly a day before the review embargo is set to official end and they are just as expected. Earlier today, publication Fextralife was spotted (via ...

Its nightmare scenario: ‘What if you were trapped in an endless cycle, repeating the same thing again and again’, has gotten a lot less scary since we’ve all been trapped inside for 18 months. How do ...

I didn’t think all that much about Returnal up until a few weeks ago, when the narrative began to shift from “hey that looks sort of cool” to early previews suggesting that many people with early ...

For a video game set on a shape-shifting alien world overrun with bioluminescent monsters and littered with copies of your own corpse, there’s something weirdly familiar about the life-devouring new ...