Reach the Ocean

What does it take to be a game? Win states? Rules? The questions pop up again and again. And as expectations for…

Remember a couple of weeks ago, when I asked you for your favorite tabletop memories? Just as I predicted, one post…

One of Minecraft’s more remarkable side-effects is how it gave rise to (or, indeed, popularised) an entirely new…

Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness is my first Star Ocean game. And if this one is par for the course, I’m not…

I stayed perfectly still after they chased me into the air vent. I hadn’t heard anything for several minutes. Surely…

Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture tells two complicated, interwoven stories. Both are good. Both can be a bit hard to…

I’ve been playing a few Early Access games on Steam that I’m excited about. I thought I’d report in on them.

At the beginning of 2015, I announced that my four-year-old JRPG column, Random Encounters, was coming to an end.…

One of Nintendo’s biggest releases in 2015 is the sprawling 100-hour adventure Xenoblade Chronicles X, released…

I spent a few minutes staring at the screen when SOMA ended. It’s messed up, and even though you can see it coming,…