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It has been a weird and quiet year for video games this year, both because we’re in a pre-next-gen lull and, you…

Soon after the coronavirus struck my busy Brooklyn hospital, I found myself caring for an older gentleman with…

During my time with an early reviewable version of Ori and the Will of the Wisps,, I experienced multiple lockups,…

After Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, the titular character went into retirement—both in the series’ fiction and real…

With every new Hearthstone expansion, Blizzard makes a habit of releasing free single-player content, mostly as an…

The Bloody Palace has been a fixture of Devil May Cry ever since 2003’s Devil May Cry 2. It’s a mode that involves…

Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake’s defining attribute is texture. Metal Gear shaped an initial world, and Metal Gear 2…

Metal Gear wants the player to fail. The game’s rough edges are part of the growing pains of an early genre, but…

Red Faction: Guerilla was released in 2009. Now, in 2018, it’s back with a re-release, and playing through it again…

People poured money into a Kickstarter for a spiritual successor to the 1998 Nintendo 64 game Banjo-Kazooie. Why?…