Hunker Down

Contrast starts off like all games of its mysterious, charming nature should: by not telling you much.

Few things fill me with dread like the first terror response mission in XCOM. Kidney stones, for sure. The DMV. But…

Developers have spent years trying to develop sensible touchscreen controls for first and third-person shooters…

It can often feel as though some people who like video games want to have it both ways: They want games to be taken…

For a brief few seconds while playing through a 30-minute slice of 2K Games' upcoming XCOM game, I thought I was in…

The web has been abuzz about games with a focus on depression this year, Depression Quest in particular catching…

Sure, pranks are things jerks often do—but sometimes, things can get genuinely mean. And there's really no other…

Starhawk is a third-person shooter. Actually, scratch that, let me try again: Starhawk is a fighter-pilot game.…

I haven't had a good scare since 2005, at least not at the hands of Resident Evil.

Few video games deal with the touchy subject of religion seriously. When they do, they often deal with the more…