Side Effects

Last week I got on the phone with Bungie's Luke Smith, lead designer on Destiny's Vault of Glass raid. We had a…

Borderlands is an island. In its center, there's a breezy mix of ridiculous firefights and even nuttier guns.…

The unexpectedly great 2012 open-world game Sleeping Dogs has gotten a remastered "definitive edition" for new-gen…

Knock, knock. Who's there? An alien. It kills you.

Normally when a big-name video game releases a version on tablet devices, it's either a pared down version of the…

This past week in Tokyo saw the end of the second Persona 3 musical's run. And while I had not seen the first, I…

Destiny's first ever raid is not—by any stretch of imagination—a cakewalk. For one, the raid is obtuse and…

And the accompanying update finally fixes dialogue in co-op. Thank god.

The third Keshin live-action film, Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends, hit Japanese theaters this past weekend. As…

Sean Baptiste, like a great many people, often turns to humor as a means to cope. Learning that a sample of his…