Distant Past

I managed to survive E3 2018, my first one in fact, and I can even remember most of the games I saw and played.…

In the mid-nineties, at the approach of the millennium, the creators of Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest combined…

Video games’ version of paternalism is usually reductive: parents and children rarely stray from the roles of…

Half a year ago, Ubisoft released Assassin’s Creed Origins. It was in some ways the most ambitious Assassin’s Creed…

Fortnite now offers guided tours of its map. Well, in a manner of speaking.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance was a grand idea. In a genre awash with fantasy epics, it sought to ground a role-playing…

There are some cultures that believe taking a photograph captures a part of your soul. Your job in Fatal Frame II:…

There’ve been lots of difficult games in my life. Shining in the Darkness was one of the hardest in my 16-bit era…

The first time I played Gorogoa, I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.

Star Wars Battlefront II is a conflicted game. The multiplayer progression system is a mess, and the story campaign…