Fall Valley

It’s been a bad year for great games, but a great year for good ones.

It’s true: Five is a ridiculous number for summing up a decade’s worth of video games. It’s far too small. One can’t…

Video games are quite fond of the work of M.C. Escher—you’ll see his influence in the mundane labyrinths of Control,…

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It’s not often I replay games, but when my sister asked for something to play together, I suggested The Legend of…

A couple of months ago, in a meeting room on the outskirts of the Los Angeles Convention Center during the E3 gaming…

For most of my life, I never quite understood escapism. I knew how powerful video games could be, how seductive and…

Playing Etherborn is like taking a hike through a series of colorful terraria that have been warped and torn apart…