Black Box

After spending a week with the Xbox One X, Microsoft’s “world’s most powerful console,” I know three things for…

This story didn’t happen to me. Not really. But some nights, it felt like it could have.

This year at TwitchCon, the show floor is playing host to a handful of box-shaped, see-through “Streamer Zones”…

FIFA 18 is a good game of football with an absolutely incredible singleplayer mode. PES 2018 is a fantastic game of…

The influx of randomized loot boxes into games like Shadow of War and Star Wars Battlefront II has kicked off a…

When Shadow of Mordor released in 2014, its “nemesis system” was brilliant enough that many people hoped it would…

Last night, while a meatloaf roasted in my oven and I moved some kale around a pan, it suddenly dawned on me that…

Tokyo Game Show is as much about going shopping as it is playing games. Most of the major game publishers have two…

In 2017 most video game consoles look pretty similar: black boxes of varying size aimed at being as discrete as…

Somewhere between the fancier notebooks at your local big box store and high-powered desktop replacements is the…