Bad Mechanic

Now that it’s 2020, I keep thinking about how it felt to be a woman writing about gender in video games back in 2010.

2019 was a weird year for games. Some great stuff was released in the last 12 months, but there was also a lot of…

I wrote about Mansions of Madness last week, because it’s a great game and I loved every second of it. This week,…

I have never played a game as inconsistent as Ghost Recon Breakpoint. In its finest moments, when the stars align,…

This week, Destiny 2—Bungie’s long-running sci-fi shoot-and-loot extravaganza—got a thorough overhaul. With its Shado…

Mario Kart Tour is a fine racing game. The graphics are lovely. The simple touch controls are fine once you get used…

During a PAX-adjacent Microsoft event in Seattle last week, I’d just finished playing the demo of Backbone, a noir…

I have been in mourning. Loss has followed me for weeks now, and I have not been able to give it a name.

Fortnite’s giant mechanical Brutes have been contentious among players since they arrived at the start of Season 10.…

A couple of months ago, in a meeting room on the outskirts of the Los Angeles Convention Center during the E3 gaming…