Science: The Game

Games tend to have trouble depicting black hair, but this year’s E3 displayed refreshing palette of kinky, coily,…

“This is day zero of Beyond Good & Evil 2,” Michel Ancel told me on Monday. As he spoke, he was playing an early…

Nintendo made a bunch of hopes and dreams come true today at E3. After a seemingly endless wait, they finally…

Beneath the Hotline Miami series’ savagely violent mind-trip lies an acutely intelligent narrative—one that…

For many of Dragon Quest VII’s overwhelmingly depressing storylines, I spent time saving and hanging out with people…

There are better Star Trek video games out there, but none that come close to delivering the immersive cooperative…

Most video games are content just to string the player along through dungeons, towns, or corridors full of machine…

Lovecraftian horror is a tricky genre to nail down. The creeping sense of dread, of being locked in the throes of…

Video games can make us feel large and powerful, but they also have the ability to make us very small, granting us a…

“Those pretend people you shoot at in computer games . . . now you know. They think they’re real. They feel it.” Way…