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Fall is here and that means more weeks filled with games like Metroid Dread, Far Cry 6, and Alan Wake

The PlayStation 5 is officially out. It’s a tremendous boon for progress, a near-universal step above its…

Easter eggs are always fun. A little secret or hidden item that lets players and developers have a connection, for a…

Gail Gygax and I were sitting in the living room of a lace-trimmed, flower-filled bed and breakfast in Lake Geneva,…

In a year when PC gaming became more multifaceted and complicated than ever, it also popularized a genre—battle…

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The first Splatoon gave us a new way to play multiplayer shooters, a genre that sometimes feels stale. Two years…

I’ve seen a lot of people contending that Ronda Rousey was “exposed” over the weekend—that Holly Holm’s…

There’s a cutscene, late in Metal Gear Solid V, that’s ostensibly serious but contains a musical interlude so…

In video game years, Mario Kart 8 is already middle-aged yet remains virile. It maintains a healthy population of…