Acts of Blood

To hear her tell the story, Twitch streamer Sweet_Anita has lived a fascinating and unusual life.

From tip to tail, Red Dead Redemption 2 is a profound, glorious downer. It is the rare blockbuster video game that…

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is huge. Each new boundary is broken down the moment you reach it, the game world spilling…

Not too long ago I heard about a Warhammer 40k card game on smartphones. I decided, as part of my fool’s errand to…

By the mid-2000s, Capcom was rightly considered a formidable creator of horror games thanks to venerable series like …

World of Warcraft is a game that is absolutely full to the brim with characters who are decent people and then turn v…

Sometimes I imagine my brain is a collection of baskets that contain everything I know. There’s a basket for the…

A bloodied wolf man birthing an unspeakable thing. The top half of a schoolgirl clawing her way across a marble…

I’ve put 81 hours into Divinity: Original Sin 2 over the last 12 days. When I wasn’t playing, I was thinking about…

This is an excerpt from my upcoming book, BLOOD, SWEAT, AND PIXELS, which comes out on September 5 and tells the…