Kirk Hamilton

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Kirk Hamilton·Oct 25, 2018

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From tip to tail, Red Dead Redemption 2 is a profound, glorious downer. It is the rare blockbuster video game that seeks to move players not through

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Kirk Hamilton·Sep 21, 2018

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Destiny 2’s new expansion, Forsaken, turns the game into something that people can play as much as they want without running out of things to do. If

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Kirk Hamilton·Aug 6, 2018

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In my first game of Dead Cells, I died after about four minutes. In my most recent one, I lasted almost an hour. The time difference between those two

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Kirk Hamilton·Jul 5, 2018

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In Hollow Knight, looks can be deceiving. A sad little lamplit town may hide the entrance to a beautiful buried kingdom. A towering knight might turn out

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Kirk Hamilton·May 24, 2018

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The PS4’s latest blockbuster moviegame Detroit: Become Human is like something my Alexa would come up with, were I to ask her to write a story about

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Kirk Hamilton·Nov 6, 2017

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Horizon Zero Dawn was a terrific game. Guess what? Its new expansion, The Frozen Wilds, is also good. For more on the many things that made Horizon Zero

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Kirk Hamilton·Oct 26, 2017

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For all its extraordinary visual splendor, Assassin’s Creed Origins is ultimately an ordinary video game. That’s not such a bad thing, particularly if you

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Kirk Hamilton·Oct 3, 2017

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As I struggle to fall asleep after a night of Destiny 2, the game keeps running through my mind. It’s like getting a song stuck in my head: I see the

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Kirk Hamilton·Aug 17, 2017

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Uncharted: The Lost Legacy is an easy video game to like in spite of its flaws. It’s buoyed by a winning cast of characters and has some of the prettiest

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Kirk Hamilton·Mar 29, 2017

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Imagine your old high school. Picture the doors you’d pass through at the start of each day. See if you can recall the awkward conversations you had with

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Kirk Hamilton·Jan 31, 2017

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Arkham Knight almost certainly won't be the last great Batman video game, nor must it be. But after watching Bruce Wayne and his clown-faced nemesis wink out of existence one last time, I feel I've seen what I came to see. I can crinkle up my ticket stub and shrug into my winter coat, exiting the theater without a look back for whatever secrets or teases may await after the credits. It's over. This was the story of Batman, and it was good.

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Kirk Hamilton·Jan 10, 2017

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Despite its infuriating control issues, awful stealth missions, interminable boss fights and half-baked sidequests, I cannot discount Gravity Rush 2’s

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Kirk Hamilton·Nov 17, 2016

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Watch Dogs 2 is just a game, sitting on a screen, asking you to love it. Sometimes begging. Ubisoft’s new techno-action hackapalooza often succeeds at

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Kirk Hamilton·Nov 7, 2016

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Hitman: Season One has it where it counts. Its ten missions consist of far more hits than misses, and its open-ended levels are able to sustain hours of obsessive repetition and mastery. The overarching narrative may be unimpressive, but each location is well-conceived and believable, full of fascinating details and hilarious overheard conversations.

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Kirk Hamilton·Nov 3, 2016

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House of the Dying Sun rushes ahead with furious focus and great urgency, and it’s hard not to get caught up in its dark current. It sweeps aside the