Escape Artist

Video games often employ lots of cruel tricks in which gamers find themselves in precarious pickles—the gigantic and…

Imagine your old high school. Picture the doors you’d pass through at the start of each day. See if you can recall…

In the first few minutes of Final Fantasy VI, just when you think you’ve got a sense of the game’s rhythm,…

Dishonored 2 lives and dies by its level design. Tricky guard patrols and magical abilities don’t mean much without…

A couple weeks ago, I wrote about Crashlands, a mash-up of Diablo, Pokemon, and Don’t Starve lobbed at Steam’s…

I love origin stories, especially when they’re related to games.

There are no monsters in Near Death, a new video game about escaping an otherwise abandoned, wrecked and unbearably…

I love the Elusive Targets in Hitman. There have been five Elusive Contracts since the game’s launch, and after…