Critical Strike

Dark Souls’ gloomy world and difficult battles appeal to players and writers alike. One of the deepest dives is You…

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…

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

After Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, the titular character went into retirement—both in the series’ fiction and real…

As I was growing up, I hated sports. When I was nine, I quit football after two weeks to my dad’s disappointment. By…

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

Few series are as dear to my heart as Creative Assembly’s Total War, with its mix of history, real-time tactics and…

In journalism, no two things are more often and easily confused than “this wild thing is happening” and “this wild…

One could be forgiven for thinking Assassin’s Creed Odyssey was an action-packed mix of 300 and Wonder Woman, all…

Each new Halo game since 2007’s Halo 3 gets some praise, then fades, and then is pointed to as a sign that the…