Half-Life: The Core

In an earlier era of video game design, the most lucrative way to extract money from customers was to pulverize them…

I hate writing top ten lists. At the end of a year, I’m so exhausted that I can barely remember which games came out…

Monsters, sorceresses, ballads, and swords. Netflix’s The Witcher is fun high fantasy pulp, particularly if you’re…

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Campo Santo’s follow-up to Firewatch, In the Valley of the Gods, was supposed to be out at the end of 2019. Since…

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Shenmue has always straddled the line between the epic and the everyday. Yu Suzuki’s ambitious adventure game series…

Every Final Fantasy game has had special meaning to me, even the more controversial ones like X-2 and XIII. While…