The Named

A quick-match basketball game that plays more like a distant descendant of NBA Street than a true successor.

N++ is an absolutely stellar game. I even like the unconventional name and appreciate developer Metanet Software's continued embrace of the N name first used for its original Flash creation more than two decades ago. But it's also a name that comes with some issues, perhaps best demonstrated by the game's name on Steam being followed by "(NPLUSPLUS)." So what do you do when you're making a multiplayer follow-up and need to come up with a name? "It's always been hard for us to name these things," Metanet's Raigan Burns said when asked about the name of the newly announced N+ Infinity Times Two.

The Hawk review: Will Ferrell has given us so many funny characters; this Netflix series does not feature one of them.

Sony's best first-party studio hasn't published a new game for almost a decade, and that's a problem.

The Invite review: Olivia Wilde directs the hell out of four people in one apartment.