Plot Armor

Despite abundant expectations that it would be bad, Nintendo’s new Metroid spin-off turns out to be very good.

Hardship is a social glue, especially in games. Shared victories and mutual defeat, confusion, frustration— these…

They’ve been called many things over the years. Isometric RPGs, hack’n’slash RPGs, ARPGs, Diablo clones. But one…

Some people had hoped, after months of hype and the pedigree of director Duncan Jones (Moon, Source Code), that Warcr…

I’ve spent more than 100 hours in The Witcher 3 over the past year. It’s become the background of my gaming life, a…

Months ago, when the first trailer for Terra Formars painted the live action film as a comedy, I expected it to be…

In the last couple of years, I’ve developed a strange relationship with JRPGs. I found myself tiring of their…

If you ask me, The Witcher 3 is the finest RPG of our time. I don’t want to bid it farewell, but CD Projekt’s got…

I had a long, entertaining chat with Ta-Nehisi Coates two weeks before the first issue of the new Black Panther…

Imagine, if you will, a world where nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons were all rendered obsolete by nearly…