Every so often, a game appears that gets me in trouble with the erstwhile editor of this website. You see, sometimes a game appears that is so big, so engrossing that it is almost impossible to play ...

MIT Technology Review’s highly subjective take on the latest buzz about AI Everyone is panicking because AI is very bad; everyone is panicking because AI is very good. It’s just that you never know ...

Code Vein II is very, very close to joining From Software’s games and the Nioh series in the upper echelons of soulslikes. A quality narrative, fluid combat and an excellent, Ocarina of Time-like ...

Waseem is a writer here at GameRant. He can still feel the pain of Harry Du Bois in Disco Elysium, the confusion of Alan Wake in the Remedy Connected Universe, the force of Ken's shoryukens and the ...

Dalton Cooper is the Managing Editor of GameRant. Dalton has been writing about video games professionally since 2011. Having written thousands of game reviews and articles over the course of his ...

The idea of an anime-style soulslike releases plenty of good chemicals in my brain, but the first Code Vein back in 2019 turned out to be just okay in my book. Like a number of Bandai Namco's original ...

Code Vein II PS5 Review. Anime, vampires and Soulslikes-these are the three hallmarks that make up Code Vein, a franchise that first arrived on the scene in 2019 to popular fanfare due to its unique ...

Oscar Gonzalez is a Texas native who covered video games, conspiracy theories, misinformation and cryptocurrency. The Soulslike genre -- difficult action games built on the formula established by ...

It’s fitting that Code Vein II is set in a world of vampires. As I hunted down these bloodsucking creatures in the present and 100 years in the past to prevent the collapse of the world, I felt ...

Sequels carry certain expectations with them, like the promise of building on the promise of what came before and correcting past mistakes. Bandai Namco’s Code Vein 2 is exceptional in that it manages ...

When you begin, the game introduces an event called The Resurgence and how it reshaped the world. It explains that revenant heroes became Cocoons to seal The Resurgence and prevent total destruction.