Puzzle King

Summer is here, which means it’s time for going to the beach, taking a road trip—or hunkering down next to the air…

The PlayStation 1 got an array of games. Some were good, some were bad and some had odd box art. “Odd,” however,…

One scene on last night’s episode of Game of Thrones might require some explanation for people who haven’t read the…

Here’s a theory: Final Fantasy is defined by how it sounds.

Horror games have one simple purpose: scaring you. They’re fueled by long moments of tension which erupt in a brief…

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

Usually, we evaluate video games based on how they play, look, and make us feel. Today, we’ll be critiquing them…

“This piece of the game is supposed to be difficult,” the game designer Jonathan Blow recently said to me as we…

For the 10th year in a row (!), I’ve tallied the games I played in the past 12 months and have counted the ones I’ve…

It is time again to go through my favorite games of the year. I promise they’re not all JRPGs.