Dim: A Light in the Dark

“Respect the woods,” Darkwood cautions you before you start playing for the first time. It’s part of a warning that…

Red Dead Redemption 2’s saloons are the hubs of their towns. Whether you want a full belly, a quick drink, a place…

The first and sometimes the only thing people say about Dark Souls is that it’s hard. Really hard, migraine hard,…

When it gets dark in a video game, it’s usually not all that dark. The cave you’re in may be dim. The forest at…

This weekend, scores of players in Busan, South Korea, will compete in a LAN pulled from Ready, Player One’s wildest…

This story didn’t happen to me. Not really. But some nights, it felt like it could have.

Have you ever looked directly at the Sun only to find it wasn’t there? That’s the question asked by The 2017 Solar…

Some people play gigantic space game Elite: Dangerous to lead humble, (relatively) ordinary space lives. They do…

I went to Brooklyn, New York to visit Nina Freeman, who is currently making a game called Cibele. It is an…

“Sometimes I’m tempted to just, like, lie,” laughs a colleague across a table from me.