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In the Pokémon universe, it’s customary for small children to receive a beast capable of leveling cities before…

More than a year out from release, Dreams stands apart for its unique combination of game creator and sharing…

I need to tell you about Maquette.

Spring is here! The birds are singing, flowers blooming, and uh, it rains more. What a season! Sadly, covid-19…

Monsters in the Dark: The Making of X-COM: UFO Defense tells the story of the early years of legendary strategy game…

Monsters in the Dark: The Making of X-COM: UFO Defense tells the story of the early years of legendary strategy game…

The final level of Hitman 3 is an exciting and aggressive fight that moves across the length of a long cargo train…

Yakuza: Like A Dragon is many things: a satire, a melodrama, a business/real estate simulator, and a dungeon-based…

One of the best parts of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla does not take place in England. Where you go is a spoiler. It’s…

Call of Duty’s battle royale Warzone is just under a year old. When it launched in March of 2020, I praised the…

Genshin Impact has one of the most exciting regions that I’ve visited in a video game in years. It’s called Liyue…

Mario was back for another adventure. But this time, it was personal. Hiroji Kiyotake, the director of 1992’s Game…

For as long as Mario, Luigi, Bowser, and Princess Peach have existed, another group of characters have been waiting…

Yoshi, upon its debut, was a bright green agent of change in the Mario franchise. In its first appearance, it bursts…

How do you evolve a franchise with an almost-static main character? You look to his antagonist: Bowser, King of the…

35 years on, Princess Peach’s lot is somehow still primarily about being kidnapped and rescued. But is there hope on…

When LittleBigPlanet creators Media Molecule launched the game-as-an-engine PlayStation 4 exclusive Dreams into…

There are so many games. The Nintendo Switch sees 30 releases a week. More than 50 PC games come out a day on Steam. …

For parents, the Christmas vacation is, at its best, a fortnight of Sundays. No school, but also everything else is…

We made it, everyone. It’s winter 2020, which is really just a couple of weeks of 2020, with the vast majority of…