Man in a Maze

May 22, 2020 marks the 40th anniversary of a moment that shook the video game industry and profoundly changed the…

This week on Snapshots, some Spider-Men, some Stormtroopers, a cool collection of feathers, a gold mask, some shoes…

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…