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The problem annual sports games face is how to get players to buy another installment year after year. You don’t want to risk alienating longtime fans by changing too much.

For many gamers, AD2460 will feel like something completely different. Rather than playing on a console or a powerhouse PC, this is a 4x space empire game designed to be played in the web browser.

Despite the boom of superhero movies, the video game industry seems to lack superhero games aside from the occasional Batman or Spider-Man title. Thankfully, 2017’s Injustice 2 is one of the few comic book video games that properly utilizes its intellectual property.

Commonly referred to as Fatal Fury 4, Garou: Mark of the Wolves is one of SNK’s defining fighting games. This claim is not made lightly considering the studio is also responsible for The King of Fighters series.

Going fast is really fun. Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2012) takes speed junkies on the ultimate joyride, dumping a box of Hot Wheels on an open world playground and letting the player take the wheel from there.

The XCOM franchise first debuted in 1994 and revolutionized early PC gaming before slowly fading into relative obscurity. After nearly a decade of silence, Firaxis Games, developer of the long-running Civilization series, brought this once-dead series back to life with 2012’s XCOM: Enemy Unknown.

If there is one word that comes to mind when playing Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, it’s “ambitious.” There are so many moving parts and organic systems in play when it comes to Rockstar’s swansong for the PS2 trilogy.

Every season, gamers get their hands on the latest soccer games. The only decision fans have to make is what franchise they want to go for. After all, Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer has a fierce rival in EA’s FIFA series.

If I were to write my review of The Banner Saga on an actual banner, the signet would be me looking very anxious. Such is the weight behind the decisions and battles of Stoic Studio’s 2014 strategy game.

The Banner Saga 2 is the 2016 sequel to the original 2014 game by Stoic Studio. For the uninitiated, Stoic Studio is helmed by three former BioWare employees, and it shows in their projects.