Man in a Maze

Across thousands of years of existence, we as a people have come to regard war as pretty bad. Senseless violence and…

Video games are quite fond of the work of M.C. Escher—you’ll see his influence in the mundane labyrinths of Control,…

I love solving a good maze on paper, but it turns out real-life mazes can be trickier to solve. The biggest change…

The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening is a mystery. Link, the hero of the Zelda games, wakes up after getting…

Everybody calls Rob Kuntz last, he says. Those who want to know about the history of Dungeons & Dragons start with…

By the end of the month, there will be 46 games in Nintendo Switch Online’s NES library. There will be 52 if you…

For the first two hours I spent with it, Photographs came close to being one of my favorite puzzle games of the…

Role-play has always been where Fallout 76 has shown the most promise, and nothing better illustrates that than some…

Gail Gygax and I were sitting in the living room of a lace-trimmed, flower-filled bed and breakfast in Lake Geneva,…

Capcom once filed suit in an attempt to get Fighter’s History pulled from arcades. And today, you can play it on…