AUTOMATON's Wesley Armstrong finds a beautiful little puzzler made with light and dreams in the App Store's Free App of the Week: Pursuit of Light.

I started out with the intention of coming up with a recipe for a homemade version of the store bought energy drinks, but after doing some research an...

AUTOMATON's Peter Martin gets in way over his head with Mortal Kombat X—and is glad he did. Here's what a fighting game/MK series newbie has to say about the latest entry.

For Fight Week, AUTOMATON's Graham Arthur completely invalidates his cred as a gamer by actually spending time with the shitty, shitty Street Fighter: The Movie game, without even being told to do so.

Fighting games seem to have polarized the community that enjoys them into two very separate sides: those who play for fun, and those who compete. AUTOMATON's Shehzaan Abdulla posits that there could be a better way to help unite the two sides wi ...

You can't always capture lightning in a bottle. But when Nintendo put out a new Donkey Kong game on the Game Boy, that's exactly what happened. Graham Arthur talks about one of yesteryear's best games.

Often energy drink fans complain that there is a huge double standard when it comes to energy drinks.

Karoliina Korppoo, lead game designer on Colossal Order's urban development simulator Cities: Skylines, speaks with the AUTOMATON Japan staff about the Cities series and the studio itself.

Japan is slowly gaining traction in the energy drink industry with some original creations. This one here, BlacKOut, is the only competitor I've found to Western drinks.

Graham Arthur kicks off another AUTOMATON original miniseries focusing on the games of our lives: A Dreamcast Retrospective.

Welcome to /t/EnergyDrinks! Let's get things off right: what're you drinking?

For me it's classic green Monster. I'll try any new flavor of anything that I stumble across (Rockstar, Redbull, Amped) but I always come back to the original green can. It's like a ham and cheese sandwich: that familiar flavor always does me right.

Hey everyone! Energy drinks, for whatever snarky comments may exist, are a ubiquitous part of Western culture and spreading rapidly through the East. Just like coffee drinkers and cola fiends, energy drinks should be welcomed, enjoyed and even discussed. This tribe is to help open up the discussion and rapport that shows that there's more to energy drinks than extreme sports and music festivals (though those are usually awesome).

Remember the California Raisins? Wouldn't it be awesome if you could get them to beat the shit out of each other in a video game? Well guess what: YOU TOTALLY CAN! AUTOMATON's Graham Arthur reminisces about ClayFighter.

A musical puzzler with a visually delightful aesthetic, Cadence answers an age-old question for AUTOMATON's Graham Arthur: "How long can I listen to the same set of tones happily?" Answer: quite a while.

How often do we overlook the hero we all need and deserve simply because he grew from a tree? If you said never, you're ignorant. AUTOMATON's Graham Arthur delves into the instant classic of Funassyi vs. Dragons.

Half-Life remains an incredibly prolific title in both storytelling and pacing, and few would deny its influence on gaming today. But does it stand the test of time—and not just in a retro fashion? Shehzaan Abdulla takes on the classic tale to see if ...

Because we get our news from Twitter with no research whatsoever anymore, apparently.

Another MMO project is lost, another crowdfunded disaster tale. This time, however, is it the dreamer or the coder who's at fault? AUTOMATON's Graham Arthur takes a brief look at this developing case.

Sometimes you feel you've got to (da da) run away, and AUTOMATON's Matthew Coslett has the perfect outlet for such feelings. Come explore your inner Birdman of Alcatraz while playing The Escapists.

The release date for Halo 5 has been officially announced. AUTOMATON's Graham Arthur reports.