Planet Automata

For 13 years, I’ve been listing the games I’ve played each year. This used to be a means for me to log how many…

The end of the world is here, and I never thought it’d sound so beautiful.

In a year when PC gaming became more multifaceted and complicated than ever, it also popularized a genre—battle…

In 2012, as work on Mass Effect 3 came to a close, a small group of top BioWare employees huddled to talk about the…

Nier: Automata is a game that explores the meaning and consequence of being human, despite not featuring a single…

Nier: Automata takes place in Earth’s far, far future, in which an android named 2B defends the planet from aliens.…

Nier: Automata begins as a scrolling shooter. Then it’s a twin-stick shooter, a third-person action RPG and a 2.5D…

It’s a pretty great feeling, standing at the brink of a new year and surveying what’s to come—even if it later turns…

Introduced at this year’s E3, Square Enix’s new NieR game, developed by Platinum Games, now has an official name and…

You've gotta love a game that makes a sly reference to 2010 indie darling Limbo. But, further perusal shows that Pi…