Half-Life: The Core

One moment, you’re on top of the world, the next, completely helpless. Weaponless, defenseless, and pretty much…

Video games gave me much comfort in this very trying year. They also stressed me out like you wouldn’t believe.

In Final Fantasy VI, the villains triumph. It’s one of the most shocking moments in gaming. As devastating at the…

There’ve been lots of difficult games in my life. Shining in the Darkness was one of the hardest in my 16-bit era…

Star Butterfly, the titular character of Star vs The Forces of Evil, is a perfect princess for a show that’s filled…

Most years, I find whittling a best-of list down to just 10 entries a tortuous process. Not so in 2017, because in…

On a Sunday morning in September, Typhoon Talim was flooding the western part of Japan with a torrential downpour,…

Dwarf Fortress is a two dimensional fortress-building game about dwarves, which often breaks in fascinating ways.…

Breath of the Wild’s vast open world is full of discoveries. The most important discoveries we make come when the…

In a year when PC gaming became more multifaceted and complicated than ever, it also popularized a genre—battle…