Puzzle Planet

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…

2018 has been a blur for me. It may just be that I’m in the last year of my twenties, or it could be that extreme…

Yes, Anathem, the Locus-winning science fiction novel published in 2008. Over an arduous few weeks, I have read Anath…

I’ve played through the first Metroid three times, but I’ve never played it without a map. Yesterday, I was…

E3, a show in which the future of gaming pretends to be in the present, is in the past. Those demos that may or may…

Just because you don’t have access to the fanciest gear around doesn’t mean you have to play subpar games. Even if…

I like Kirby games, but I would not consider myself an advanced Kirbyologist. I was therefore surprised to learn a…

Great games are interesting, as are terrible ones. Mediocrity’s a bore. Too bad Nintendo’s newest Kirby game is just…

Dead Space brims with apprehension and panic—its tight spaceship corridors provide little place to run as monsters…

A few hours into Titanfall 2’s unexpectedly fantastic single-player campaign, there’s a mission where everything…