Indie adventure Gone Home, which made waves last year on PC, is coming to consoles later this year, the developers at Fullbright Games announced today. » 3/10/14 12:58pm 3/10/14 12:58pm

Want to play Gone Home but don't want to deal with nonsense like "exploring" and "reading" and "emotional resonance"? Try Gun Home, the downloadable content devised by the fine folks at Dorkly. Because a video game isn't a video game unless you're killing Hitler. » 1/15/14 3:30pm 1/15/14 3:30pm

Gone Home sure does provoke some good criticism. This time, the critic in question is noted interactive fiction designer (and Versu co-creator) Emily Short, who has written a lengthy, thoughtful essay about how Gone Home overly relied on backstory—as opposed to active story—and as a result fell short of its potential. » 1/09/14 7:00pm 1/09/14 7:00pm

Gone Home, the Fullbright company's evocative house-exploration game, is being remade with an old-school JRPG look. Because why not? » 12/24/13 2:00pm 12/24/13 2:00pm

Do we grade video games on curve? Do we patronize them? Do we pat them on the head and praise progress over performance? "We" as in me, you and everyone else who loves games. Maybe we're too nice. » 12/16/13 6:00pm 12/16/13 6:00pm

Gone Commentary: The lovely exploration game Gone Home will receive a free update on Steam that adds commentary from the developers, easter eggs and possibly some interviews according to Rock Paper, Shotgun. » 10/10/13 1:15pm 10/10/13 1:15pm

Is The Walking Dead a "game"? How about Dear Esther? Gone Home? They're all certainly lovely, heartbreaking experiences, but are they "games"? » 9/19/13 2:33pm 9/19/13 2:33pm

Just in case Gone Home wasn't scary enough already: check out this disturbing rendition of the game's audiologs by Orthogonalus. Jeeze, I dunno that I could handle a whole game like this! » 8/22/13 10:30pm 8/22/13 10:30pm

I've always been pretty good at Magic Eye posters. I even had one in my room as a kid. It was of dinosaurs, I believe, and I got very good at crossing my eyes just so and making the Tyrannosaurs and the Archaeopteryx come to life. » 8/16/13 2:00pm 8/16/13 2:00pm

Gone Home, the mysterious house-exploration game from the Fullbright Company, will be out on August 15 for PC, Mac and Linux. It'll cost $19.99. I've played the first act and really liked it; you can find more at the game's site. » 8/02/13 1:30pm 8/02/13 1:30pm

The small studio behind the upcoming first-person exploration game Gone Home say they're pulling their game from the next big PAX show because of their rising discomfort with the show's organizers. » 6/21/13 2:43pm 6/21/13 2:43pm

Think back to when you made mixtapes or burned a specific selection of songs to CD for somebody. What were you trying to do? » 3/20/13 2:00pm 3/20/13 2:00pm

If you've played a game, you've probably encountered some form of environmental storytelling. In Left 4 Dead, safe rooms have notes scrawled on the wall from past apocalypse survivors, frantic missives to whomever comes along. In Fallout 3, a long-abandoned gas station reveals that its past occupant liked to play… » 11/15/12 2:10pm 11/15/12 2:10pm