The trailer had everything that people love about Borderlands. But this wasn’t a new Borderlands so much as it was more Borderlands. It was MORE-derlands.

Since Borderlands 2, Ubisoft and Activision have proceeded to outspend 2K and Gearbox on every level imaginable to create online-only loot shooters like Destiny and Tom Clancy’s The Division. Even EA has gotten into the action with Anthem.

Our review of The Division 2 is currently underway and while it’s too soon to provide any kind of impression or feedback, I return from DC with a few tips for new agents entering the game for the first time when it goes live to the public this Friday.

And so it all comes back full circle to Practice and Execution. I’d honed those traits via trial by line clear, way back when I vigorously played Tetris DS, but my block-droppin’ had grown rusty by the time I first picked up Tetris 99.

I’ve played the Private Beta, the Technical Beta, and the Open Beta of Tom Clancy’s The Division 2. I now have a full grasp at what to expect when the game goes live on March 15. But the sequel’s campaign is a worry, while the endgame content makes me wish it’s the 15th already.

Imagine that: a company in the business of publishing games just admitted that losing game developers might hurt their ability to make games.

No matter how much you love videogames – and I bloody love videogames – the professional demands of the game review tax your mental faculties, push your energies to their limits and challenge you to play better, work harder and write smarter.

What separates Mark of the Ninja from other stealth games is the degree of precision by which it has been crafted. Every mistake you make is yours and yours alone, as Mark of the Ninja leaves none of its design to randomly generated chance.

In Rainbow Six: Siege, there’s a steep learning curve to climb to become a valuable asset to a team. Map knowledge, Operator mastery, easy and quick call outs - all of these are essential to improving at Siege, and the plethora of necessary skills are a major reason why this is one of the growing esports titles today.

“This remake honors almost everything that made the original such a great sequel. But a few small changes alter it in a deeply fundamental way. “

Deep Sky Derelicts is a game that rewards you for being deliberate even if it never challenges you in complexity.

After a few walls of lore and dialogue and the requisite tutorials, MU Origin 2 introduces you to what might be its best (and probably worst) feature, a criticism probably applicable to most mobile MMORPGs of the same mold: an autopilot button.