Odds and Ends

Everything in The Last of Us 2 takes work. Every weapon reload, killing blow, and crafted item takes time and button…

The initial technological threat in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty is Metal Gear RAY. It is an “anti-Metal…

The Dark Souls formula is tried and true. It’s been adapted into science fiction settings, placed into 2D, and…

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For the 14th straight year, I’m listing all the games I’ve played in the past 12 months. I’m also offering some…

In an earlier era of video game design, the most lucrative way to extract money from customers was to pulverize them…

I hate writing top ten lists. At the end of a year, I’m so exhausted that I can barely remember which games came out…

There’s a quest in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt that best shows why the world Geralt of Rivia inhabits is so easy to get…

Clash at Demonhead is 8-bit gaming at its most charmingly eclectic. Developed by Vic Tokai and known as Dengeki Big…

Destiny 2’s latest expansion ends with a cliffhanger, one that suggests that it is the final set-up for a fight the…