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Kotaku’s Mike Fahey put it best when he said that Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition “makes an excellent third…

Obscure game lovers got a surprising treat this past week.

The artisan keycap crafters at Jelly Key have outdone themselves with their latest project, a series of retro arcade…

Soon after the coronavirus struck my busy Brooklyn hospital, I found myself caring for an older gentleman with…

Chimera Squad is a fitting subtitle for the new XCOM game, because it’s a chimera of a game. Sure, it’s got XCOM’s…

A remake is, by nature, an egotistical exercise. Choosing to revise and re-release an old work of art is looking…

Mere minutes into Half-Life: Alyx, I encountered a Strider. These behemoths cast ominous shadows on all who dare…

Ori and the Will of the Wisps, out tomorrow for Xbox One and PC, is a meditative, poetic, beautiful platformer, with…

Curse of the Dead Gods, available today on Steam, punches all the roguelike buttons. It features most of the…

Dune is an experience so broken I don’t even know where to begin. Except to say it’s the best board game I’ve played…