Hyrule Warriors came out for the Nintendo Wii U in 2014. It came out for the Nintendo 3DS in 2016. In 2018, Nintendo…

Someone is a spy and you need to take them out. There’s only thirty seconds left for them to bug the ambassador and…

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There’s a telling scene very early on in the new God of War, in the denouement of an exhausting battle sequence that…

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A Way Out merges narrative games with couch co-op, and the result is a smart and emotional experience so good that it…

I’ve spent a long time trekking across Far Cry 5’s fictional Hope County, Montana fighting the members of an…

It can be difficult, as a jaded adult, to appreciate a great fairy tale—one where the hero always wins and naivety is a…

Great games are interesting, as are terrible ones. Mediocrity’s a bore. Too bad Nintendo’s newest Kirby game is just…

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Secret of Mana is a broken game that I will always love. Playing through the recent remake forced me to reckon with why…

Metal Gear Survive is wreckage of the long battle between the series’ lead creator, Hideo Kojima, and Konami, his…

Into the Breach is a game about the accumulation of small decisions, good or bad. It’s a game that never lets you…

If you’ve played an hour in one Dynasty Warriors game you’ve played an hour in all of them. That’s been the…

The Longest Five Minutes presents its basic fantasy tale as a series of flashbacks experienced by its amnesiac main…

Here is how I play Minecraft: Step one: find a tree. Step two: build a house. Step three: walk in one direction for…

It took Civilization V two full expansions to become the classic it’s regarded as today. Civilization VI is halfway…

It’s strange to think about it now, 12 years later, but there was a time when I wondered if Shadow of the Colossus was…

In MMA, there are fighters who’ve got all the potential in the world, but continually fail to put the pieces together.…