With BioWare closing after more than three decades, Fresh Look's Neal Sayatovich looks back at the legendary RPG studio's legacy, from Baldur's Gate and Jade Empire to Dragon Age and Mass Effect while reflecting on its impact on gaming and the industry's continuing loss of talented developers.
Filling in for Vincent Mahoney's Save State column one more time, Neal takes on the challenges of running a metropolis in Cities: Skylines II before narrowing his focus to the much more relaxing business of selling collectible cards in TCG Card Shop Simulator.
Fresh Look columnist Neal Sayatovich returns to Sekaicon in Newark, Ohio, for a weekend of colorful cosplay, anime voice actors, creative vendors and friendly foam sword combat, discovering how much fun a growing regional convention can pack into one weekend.
With Vincent Mahoney away for a couple of weeks, columnist Neal Sayatovich steps into Save State to revisit the original Code Vein, wrestles with a broken controller and takes another run at Code Vein II’s Mask of Idris DLC.
Fresh Look's Neal Sayatovich takes a break from controller problems and a broken DLC to look ahead to Against the Storm: The Board Game, a tabletop adaptation of one of his favorite roguelite city builders, coming soon to a game room near you.
Save State's Vincent Mahoney writes about Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave and finds a surprisingly bold new entry with multiple routes, a strong presentation, dungeon exploration and plenty of tactical depth beneath its strange opening twists.
Fresh Look columnist Neal Sayatovich this week writes about the turn-based tactical RPG Dark Deity 2, which is inspired by the Fire Emblem series. Players get to command twenty heroes and fight in challenging battles.
Save State columnist Vincent Mahoney writes about his initial experiences with The Last Remnant including its broken quests and Battle Rank frustration, and how he found that the remastered version finally lets Square Enix’s strange, ambitious RPG shine.
Fresh Look’s Neal Sayatovich was really looking forward to Star Wars: Zero Company. But a buggy experience on the PlayStation 5 combined with an AI chatbot from the dark side of the Force has left him wondering whether this tactical trip to a galaxy far, far away needed more time in hyperspace.
Before his full Oblivion Remastered Switch 2 review, Save State columnist Vincent Mahoney looks back at the original RPG that helped make him a lifelong Elder Scrolls fan, from building his first PC to stepping out of the sewers into Cyrodiil for the very first time.