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Mark Delaney

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Favorite Games:
  • Sea of Thieves

319 games reviewed
70.1 average score
70 median score
53.0% of games recommended

Mark Delaney's Reviews

Mark is an editor at GameSpot and a Boston transplant now biking across Portland, Oregon. He especially enjoys covering battle royale, horror, and sports games. He spends his free time with his family, marathoning HBO, and advocating for animal justice.
Aug 17, 2021

12 Minutes is a game about escaping a time loop, which is ironic given that it's so good that I wish I could see it all again for the first time myself.

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Aug 11, 2021

The cyberpunk genre is in the midst of a resurgence lately, and you'd be better off looking just about anywhere else for your genre fix.

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7 / 10 stars - Road 96
Aug 11, 2021

Road 96 wears its political commentary like a badge of honor, and while its themes aren't always elegantly explored, it remains an interesting and unpredictable experience.

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Jul 27, 2021

Chernobylite is one of the most inconsistent games I can recall ever playing, with fantastic highs and frustrating lows, leading to someplace in between.

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Jul 19, 2021

Variable State rejects one-hit-wonder status with its long-awaited follow-up, Last Stop, a game that feels equal parts arthouse and blockbuster.

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Jul 12, 2021

Where The Heart Leads is a unique game that chronicles a family's entire life together, spanning generations and decades. It's ambitious, albeit flawed, but certainly interesting.

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Jul 6, 2021

Watch Dogs: Legion Bloodlines brings familiar faces to new places, and if you can stand the tonal in-fighting, it's a worthwhile, occasionally daring story-driven adventure.

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Alba: A Wildlife Adventure wonderfully recontextualizes the video game sandbox as a wholesome call to action.

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Whereas so many modern indie horror games can feel like on-rails haunted hayrides, Song of Horror keeps players on their toes.

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Though it shows its age in spots, Mass Effect is still as mesmerizing today as it ever was. The Legendary Edition is a fully-featured revival of one of gaming's greatest stories.

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May 17, 2021

Days Gone received a lukewarm reception when it released for PS4, but the brilliant PC port will give new life to a game about a dying world.

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Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Wrath of the Druids review: This Ubisoft DLC delivers more of what players loved, now in Ireland, and that's it.

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8 / 10 stars - MLB The Show 21
Apr 20, 2021

MLB The Show is now multiplatform, so more players can see what makes it one of the best annual sports sims in the world.

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6 / 10 stars - Forgotten Fields
Apr 14, 2021

Forgotten Fields is a flawed, sometimes frustrating experience, but its best moments are authentic and relatable enough to still make the journey worthwhile.

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Apr 13, 2021

Ashwalkers tells an open-ended story the right way, mixing equal parts agency and powerlessness, hope and despair.

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10 / 10 stars - Before Your Eyes
Apr 9, 2021

Telling a gut-punch of a story with novel gameplay mechanics is no small feat, and Before Your Eyes marvelously delivers on both fronts.

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Mar 29, 2021

It Takes Two is the culmination of a decade of novel co op gaming ideas, and that makes it one of 2021's best games no matter what else comes out.

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6 / 10 stars - Dead Age
Mar 26, 2021

Dead Age 2 tries to rise above other games in the zombie survival genre, but while it does some things well, it does others quite poorly.

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Mar 22, 2021

For RBI Baseball 21 to launch in such a poor state with MLB The Show going multiplatform is like seeing your favorite team sit on a pile of cash as a division rival forms an all-star team.

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7 / 10 stars - Maquette
Mar 1, 2021

For a game that's all about finding closure in our lives, Maquette makes it exceptionally difficult to get to its end credits.

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