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Mark Delaney

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Favorite Games:
  • Sea of Thieves

285 games reviewed
69.7 average score
70 median score
50.2% 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.
Mar 4, 2024

Red Barrels' third Outlast game is a departure in many ways, but remains memorable for its twisted villains and the grotesque world they inhabit.

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8 / 10 - Pacific Drive
Feb 20, 2024

Ironwood Studio's debut is a challenging roguelite caRPG rich in atmosphere, complexity, and fascinating lore.

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Rocksteady's first game in nearly a decade can't shake the superhero-as-a-service genre's ubiquitous feeling that it exists to keep players mindlessly engaged.

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Feb 2, 2024

Silent Hill's return to consoles after 12 years away falls flat thanks to a script lacking even an ounce of subtlety.

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Dec 5, 2023

Vertigo Games fine-tunes its zombie-slaying power fantasy with more weapons, better set pieces, and man's best friend.

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Nov 7, 2023

An unconventional introduction soon gives way to an otherwise forgettable survival-horror game chasing nostalgia.

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10 / 10 - Alan Wake 2
Oct 26, 2023

Remedy delivers its greatest game to date by turning a long-awaited sequel into a uniquely meta multimedia masterpiece.

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Oct 16, 2023

Saber's arcade-like interpretation of American football is a few yards shy of a touchdown.

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6 / 10 - NBA 2K24
Oct 4, 2023

Visual Concepts continues to provide the most authentic simulation in sports gaming, but the in-game economy is on a fast break to the bottom.

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7 / 10 - Fort Solis
Aug 22, 2023

Fort Solis places a small but intriguing cast in its off-Earth saga in ways that can be familiar, but it justifies its addition to the subgenre with its own fun twists and philosophical arguments.

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5 / 10 - Madden NFL 24
Aug 21, 2023

Madden continues to improve on the field, but surrounding that attribute with worthwhile modes or features still eludes the franchise.

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Aug 14, 2023

The adaptation of one of the scariest movies ever made becomes one of the scariest games I've ever played.

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Jun 28, 2023

Toys For Bob reinvents the bandicoot for a modern multiplayer audience, and the results are impressively deep.

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Jun 15, 2023

Bloober Team's horror series is reimagined from the ground up, but the foundation still feels shaky.

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Jun 5, 2023

Frictional Games reinvigorates the series that made it famous with its scariest game in years.

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4 / 10 - Redfall
May 2, 2023

Arkane takes a stab at infusing the genre du jour with its signature style, but the end results are a bloody mess.

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7 / 10 - Dead Island 2
Apr 18, 2023

Dambuster Studios raises the dead in a vicious sequel long thought doomed.

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Jan 26, 2023

Scavenger Studio's semi-open-world adventure game is equal parts poetry, memoir, and mindfulness exercise.

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Dec 2, 2022

Darktide captures the most essential parts of its genre, though it sometimes stumbles when trying to build metagame content on top of that foundation.

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Supermassive calls its latest Dark Pictures entry the end of its first season, and it goes out with a bang.

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