The Tech Deck

Ghosts of Tsushima did that rare thing that great games do, which is to make me rethink what, truly, makes a title great.

Publisher Devolver Digital is having something of a moment, with "Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout" taking over the world. The publisher released "Enter the Gungeon" with developer Dodge Roll in 2016.

Do you like Souls-like games but find them a bit too dark and difficult? Indie developer Max Mraz has a game for you!

You'll have to log in to a livestream Saturday and sign up for a Ubisoft UPlay account, but once you do, you'll have access to one of the better open-world follow-ups in recent memory on PC.

Netherealm's fighting game set in the DC Universe is free for PC through Steam if you download it before Thursday.

The Epic Games Store lives up to its name with a free copy of the latest in Sid Meier's nation-building simulation game, Civilization.

The self-isolation video game giveaway tree bears some more delicious fruit, with Bandai Namco's PAC-MAN Championship Edition 2 free for Xbox, Playstation and PC players.

Both Sony and Microsoft are offering free titles to their console owners this month, regardless of whether you are subscribed through their premium online service.

A good game of Pictionary in 2020 doesn't require a sandwich board, a sharpie and a digital timer. The folks from Jackbox Games, makers of You Don't Know Jack!, have an online version that is free to download from the Epic Game Store, Steam and Xbox One right now.

The latest Call of Duty gets a battle royale mode, and it's free for players on all platforms.

The Epic Store delivers with a AAA action title as its final free game for February.

Get ready for some throwback thrillers with this free collection of independently designed demo levels.

I wrote a few weeks back about a game built in Flash called N+, which will soon become impossible to play because of the lack of support for Flash. Well, a programmer calling himself BlueMaxima is trying to save those titles for you, and you can download them all for free right now!

Scrooge McDuck is out to prove he's the richest foul on the planet. Literally.

The Epic Games store offers one free game per week, including this hand-drawn Metroidvania title available until Thursday!

The horizontal shoot 'em ups were all the rage in the 1990s, and 3D Realms/Apogee developed their own title in the genre.

Fan-made games are hit and miss, but this title released earlier this year by Merso_X is a faithful adaptation of the beat-em-ups that made the heroes in a half-shell arcade favorites in the 1990s.

Prepare to infiltrate a neighborhood home in an effort to preserve that Christmas magic.

Metanet Software's expansive, yet simple, 2D platformer can be played for free in your browser using Flash. But it won't be supported for long, so play it now!

There were a ton of great single-player experiences to be had in the past decade. But, for my money, the decade will be remembered for the options to team up in games tl

Developers Tim and Chris Stamper would later go on to found Rare video game studios and develop the classic platformer "Donkey Kong Country" for the Super Nintendo, which recently celebrated its 25th anniversary.

Prolific macabre illustrator Gahan Wilson, who drew for Playboy magazine, the New Yorker and the Matthew Looney series of sci-fi books, died last week at the age of 89. In the early 1990s, he provided the artwork for a quirky horror adventure game that rivaled the brilliance of LucasArt's finest entries to the genre.

Tuesday marks the release of a game many thought would never come: Shenmue 3. Before he created vibrant open worlds, series creator Yu Suzuki, of SEGA, cut his teeth on arcade driving title "Out Run."

Hideo Kojima's latest epic, "Death Stranding," may have just released and divided fans of the longtime game designer. But you can play a chunk of arguably his greatest work to date, 1998's "Metal Gear Solid," for free online!