Engine Room

In all my 38-plus years on this great spinning dirt ball of ours I've never once heard a person exclaim, "Hooray,…

You can assassinate a bear in Assassin's Creed III. You can run around the battle of Bunker Hill, flanking the…

What's happened in the business of video games this past week ...

Graphics engines have gotten quite powerful, to the point that they can render wide-open spaces, far-off worlds, and…

Republished from Rock, Paper Shotgun.

I want to talk about the medusa head, an enemy that has appeared in at least as many games as the goomba in Super…

Dear Esther is a terrible video game.

While it might not be quite as terrifying as the Circle Pad Pro add-on it helped inspire for the Nintendo 3DS, Reside…

Quake mod Nexuiz (pronounced "nexus") is so heavily modified that it's practically it's own game. It has been for…

It's a good time to be a Doctor Who fan. Along with the recently announced PlayStation-exclusive Doctor Who: The…