I loved NieR, but will NieR: Automata make things better or worse? I suppose we'll find out when it releases early next year (barring any delays).

Nier was an underrated game that blew me away, and its sequel is poised to be way better.

Star Fox Guard is as unbearably tense, and frighteningly stressful as it is fun. It may look like a simple, throwaway digital game, but it could be better than the game its packaged with.

Platinum knocked out a fantastic action game this year in the form of Transformers: Devastation. Not the biggest game ever made, but a dedicated slice of 1980s G1 nostalgia featuring the robots in disguise. And it looks like Platinum is dipping back into that well of classic cartoon memories, with a heroes in a half-shell adaptation.

Nier: Automata is everything I was hoping it would be, thus far. With a first taste of combat, aesthetic and story, 2016 can't come soon enough.

The new Nier game might just manage to preserve what made it wonderful while fixing the things that were so horribly wrong with it. This is what collaboration is all about.

The Xbox One has been suffering in Japan, and Microsoft is resting a lot of hope on the console exclusive Scalebound. Is it enough to sell a console on?

Scalebound looks set to devolve me even further down the anti-social ladder. It looks massive, and deeper than the usual over-the-top Platinum title, such as Bayonetta. And in fact, it may very well be so, as the head honcho over at the studio has taken to hyping Scalebound by talking down about previous projects.