Heart of Summer

In Frostpunk, a new snowy city-builder by This War of Mine studio 11 Bit that is out today, the player develops a…

In the first years of my career as a games writer, I got used to a certain reaction from my parents’ friends when…

Northgard is a different kind of strategy game. It is about map control, sure, and there are resources to be…

Back in 1973, Steve Miller Band’s “The Joker” was blaring from the PA in a California warehouse as two dozen women…

While Steam gets a lot of hype for discounted prices, you don’t actually have to spend any money to enjoy some of…

If you don’t read fanfiction, it’s hard to really understand the purpose it serves. At its worst fanfiction is self…

A month ago, I proclaimed that Nintendo’s Animal Crossing mobile game lacked heart and soul. Repetitive dialogue,…

Video game fashion goes through trends just like fashion in the real world. In 2017, games let us pretend we were at…

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

For all the video game industry’s noisy hype about groundbreaking technology, it’s still rare that a device comes…