Stick Combat

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There’s a new God of War game out, and as you may have heard, it owns. It’s also a pretty involved game with lots of…

There’s a telling scene very early on in the new God of War, in the denouement of an exhausting battle sequence that…

Sometimes I imagine my brain is a collection of baskets that contain everything I know. There’s a basket for the…

SAN FRANCISCO—Without his mask, Yoko Taro looks like anyone else at the Game Developers Conference. He has a thin…

I’ve spent a long time trekking across Far Cry 5’s fictional Hope County, Montana fighting the members of an…

Ni no Kuni II is out today, and it’s easy enough that you probably won’t need much strategy to get through the…

On a snowy day last week, in a fancy hotel suite in Manhattan I controlled Kratos in his newest PlayStation…

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

Kingdom Come: Deliverance was a grand idea. In a genre awash with fantasy epics, it sought to ground a role-playing…