Brutal Strike

Disco Elysium is a game about trauma, and I cannot stop thinking about its bullets

Creating your party in Bravely Default II is less about the characters you use than it is the jobs with which you…

Bravely Default 2, the new Nintendo Switch game about watching numbers go up, isn’t easy. The boss fights in…

Riot Games’ latest project, the hero-focused shooter Valorant, kicked off a closed beta today. After playing plenty…

Frostpunk’s The Last Autumn expansion, out today on PC, is the city-building game’s best update yet. It adds several…

When I first met the co-founders of Yacht Club Games in October of 2016, at their sleek, ocean-adjacent offices in…

It’s true: Five is a ridiculous number for summing up a decade’s worth of video games. It’s far too small. One can’t…

I quite enjoyed Fifty Shades of Grey, in the way anyone enjoys trashy novels: secretly and shamefully, with the kind…

When I think back to my childhood and teenage years, when my literary tastes were being forged in the crucible of…

It wasn’t even supposed to be called Anthem. Just days before the annual E3 convention in June of 2017, when the…