Beat Fantasy

Happy Thanksgiving! My name’s Peter Tieryas and I’m your guest writer for the next three days. I covered…

2019 is the year of the online RPG, at least for me. Whether that’s the countless hours I’ve spent in Final Fantasy…

If you’ve been following Blizzard news lately, you could be forgiven for thinking that the company had bulldozed its…

Clocking in at seven minutes long, this Final Fantasy VII Remake ad is the longest commercial to ever air on…

In the indie sci-fi exploration game Outer Wilds, you play as a four-eyed alien setting off in a rinky-dink rocket…

The way Untitled Goose Game’s goose moves, I think, is what makes it so endearing. Its self-assured waddle. The way…

Since 2005, Sega has been churning out Yakuza games. They’ve pretty much all followed the same formula: beat-’em-up…

Ghost Recon: Breakpoint, the follow-up to 2017’s popular and controversial Ghost Recon: Wildlands, kicked off its…

Life has been a little stressful lately. At first, that pushed me to turn to video games for escapism⁠—something I’d…

For most of my life, I never quite understood escapism. I knew how powerful video games could be, how seductive and…