Fear Simulator

For most of the election, many people thought Donald Trump was a joke, or at least someone who had no chance of…

All is not well in RimWorld, the popular space colonist simulator released in July. Yesterday, a Rock, Paper,…

There’s something uniquely horrid about the prospect of biological warfare. There’s the obvious: diseases like ebola…

The Fall kicked off with a Mad Max game from the Just Cause people, and then, Winter arrived with a Just Cause game…

It’s Labor Day in the U.S., and I shouldn’t be working. But it’s also Monday, and Monday is when I highlight my…

The insult of “walking simulator,” lobbed at video games whose strongest elements are exploration, discovery, and…

I thought I was finished with Journey. I was wrong.

There aren’t any games that can give you the authentic experience of what it’s like to be a parent. But I am willing…

In the past, I've expressed a healthy amount of skepticism about VR. In 20 minutes, Valve's VR demo sold me on the…

"I think the game is kind of horrifying," one game developer tells me over drinks. "Its violence... the intent…