Mystery of Island

The newly unearthed history behind one of the most offensive video games ever made

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"It’s always just seemed to me that’s what life is like: incredibly funny and ridiculous"

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Two new games from two of my favorite Japanese role-playing game series have dropped at the same time, and I am…

As a kid, I used to rush home from school so I could catch the latest episode of the Disney cartoon DuckTales. I…

I enjoyed Bugsnax far more than I thought I would. At first, it didn’t strike me as my kind of game when I judged it…

Wow, what’s a year it’s been. I memorized the pattern of tiny paint bubbles on the wall behind my computer monitor.…

In the 2020 gaming judgment system, year-end lists are determined by two separate but equally important groups: the…

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