Lost Ground

Assassin’s Creed Origins was a slow burn. The ancient Egyptian adventure didn’t grab me in its earliest scenes,…

In the treacherous world of Super Mario Bros., it’s useful, if not realistic for platforms to hover and fireballs to…

Zombies have been integral to horror games for decades now. Whether we’re doing a solo crawls through a haunted…

In the early 90s, two queer people in the Mission District of San Francisco made games about queer experiences. One…

Cartoons and video games are a match made in heaven. Well, maybe not when the cartoon is actually based on a video…

In 1993, before the magical girl anime Sailor Moon was released in the U.S., there was an alternate vision for it.…

Put ten game designers in a room together and there’s a pretty good chance someone will bring up Dark Souls.

The core innovation of Super Mario Odyssey is Mario’s companion, Cappy. Cappy is a hat that can magically possess…

Playing Rage 2 gave me flashbacks to playing Doom (2016). And that’s a very good thing.

LOS ANGELES—Neil Druckmann, creative director on the The Last of Us Part II, was nervous going into E3.