Chronos: Before the Ashes is an interesting collection of ideas, but dead average implementation, aging visuals, and flawed gameplay makes for an underwhelming package that barely rises above being just fine at best.

Video games are a timesink, lengthy campaigns that last far beyond launch week. In an age where many a developer wants a single game to provide months if not years of live service content that continues to bring in revenue, only a few games really prove to be worth the time and investment that the crowded genre demands.

It has been a terrific year for strategy games, as the gaming industry has buckled down on interactive experiences where you have to use that lump of grey matter that pilots the meat machine you call a body. From retro revivals to brand new stabs at tactical action that allow for more mainstream appeal, being able to outthink your opponents has never been more enjoyable no matter which platform you’re playing on.

What Logitech has created isn’t just a successor to one of its most popular gaming mice of the past few years, it took that design and further refined it into a responsive and ultralight configuration that punches far above its weight class.

Mortal Kombat 11’s Ultimate Edition is NetherRealm’s finest hour polished up further for a new console generation. Packed with content, further refined, and open to a wider audience than ever before, Mortal Kombat 11 is still a violent masterpiece that draws first blood with its new roster additions.

This is the end…which incidentally isn’t just a great Seth Rogen and James Franco movie, but also the theme for the final video game schedule post of 2020!

There’s more to the PS5 console than just what you see on the surface. Buried beneath the elegant menus are a bunch of other features, all designed to make your personal time with the unit more enjoyable. It’s also hardly explained, but here’s a quick breakdown on those handy options that you can easily take a look at right now on Sony’s next-gen console.

The Asus ROG Strix SCAR III is exactly what you expect it to be: Pure power, a gigantic screen, and a questionable combination of hardware that doesn’t always gel together perfectly. When it does though? It’s a beast of a gaming system, its RGB aesthetics are wonderfully loud, and it’ll easily provide high definition 60fps gaming bliss for a good number of years.