Block Flying

The following is an excerpt from Earthbound, Ken Baumann's upcoming book about Nintendo's cult classic 1994 RPG.

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Gearbox, the creators of the Borderlands series, say the next campaign DLC—Tiny Tina’s Assault on Dragon Keep—is the …

After playing about 3 hours into BioShock Infinite, my mind was only able to formulate one solitary question, a…

For the first four and a half hours of the new God of War, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the game was made by…

Castlevania has a serious identity crisis.

The Dead or Alive series has always felt like it was my fighting franchise. From the moment I first button-mashed my…

Here's to the world map. Here's to those goofy, disproportionate, inelegant pieces of virtual parchment that we've…

There are plenty of games about flying a starfighter, or being a space merchant, or a humble lowly space marine who…

During my first 25 years playing video games I had no theory about what makes a video game good. I knew the good…