A Simple Door

Just as the history of conventional sports is essentially a history of cheating, the same is true of gaming. In the…

Imagine your old high school. Picture the doors you’d pass through at the start of each day. See if you can recall…

Parappa the Rapper was one of the defining titles of the original PlayStation, not to mention one of the games that…

When you cover speedrunning for a while, you start to ask: “can I do that?” This weekend, I started doing my own…

The longer I play Breath of the Wild, the more easily I can deduce which kinds of shrines are going to be absolutely…

Nier Automata is a game that gains meaning through repetition. The ending to the game changes following multiple…

Not the most dangerous. Not the most painful*. Or, maybe, not even the most difficult per se. But if movie lore is…

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Portal 2’s GLaDOS, the game’s coolly sadistic robot narrator, wanted me to hate my co-op partner. In corporate lingo…

For Honor is a satisfying, layered fighting game that relies on “feel.” You’re fundamentally not going to get good…