Not Tetris 2

Metal Gear wants the player to fail. The game’s rough edges are part of the growing pains of an early genre, but…

Eight years ago, Games Done Quick started as a handful of sleep-deprived speedrunners unexpectedly crammed into…

In the first years of my career as a games writer, I got used to a certain reaction from my parents’ friends when…

If Football—that is, the American National Football League football—used the same naming scheme as “Dungeons &…

For the 12th straight year I’ve made a list of the video games I’ve played in the past 12 months. I’ve tweaked the…

Which video game moment of 2017 had your heart aflutter? Did it make you cry? Did you scream furiously into the…

Video games gave me much comfort in this very trying year. They also stressed me out like you wouldn’t believe.

The Switch is such a familiar part of the gaming landscape now that it’s strange to consider that Nintendo’s hybrid…

Titles like Puyo Puyo Tetris and Street Fighter X Tekken prove that bringing two successful franchises together can…

Staring into the abyss known as the videogame backlog and having it stare right back—that seems like the perfect way…