Dead Phoenix

Bravely Default 2 is a trip, man. Going in, I thought I knew exactly what this game was, and it turns out I pretty…

Most tactical games condition you to avoid failure. In XCOM, once a character dies, they’re gone. Same for Fire…

I’ve been excited to play Riot’s Valorant for a long time, and not just for the sake of the game itself. I’m a…

Gears Tactics, like many strategy games, has a permadeath feature. The three main characters—Gabe, Sid, and…

Maddy Myers, deputy editor and undercover Samus clone, has wrangled her last blog and now prepares to take up a new…

Now that it’s 2020, I keep thinking about how it felt to be a woman writing about gender in video games back in 2010.

Phoenix Point is a new turn-based tactics game designed by Julian Gollop, the driving force behind the original XCOM,…

Shenmue has always straddled the line between the epic and the everyday. Yu Suzuki’s ambitious adventure game series…

Happy week after Thanksgiving! Life is Strange 2: Episode 5 launches this week, and Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey…

Every Final Fantasy game has had special meaning to me, even the more controversial ones like X-2 and XIII. While…