Stop Those Aliens!

2014 was a weird, wooly year for video games. The big new consoles were finding their feet, and most of the games we…

Whatever you do, no matter how tempted you are by the sci-fi setting and purple landscape, don't think of this as a…

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

We normally think of game ratings as little more than a useful marker of where we'll be able to buy a game, or…

I’m standing in front of a cave, my assault rifle drawn. I’m shooting at a steady stream of identical aliens. I do…

Something feels off in Destiny—and it's not just Peter Dinklage's delivery.

Until this week, I'd never played The Sims.

In January of 2010, I decided to change my outlook on how I manage my gaming time, how I collect games, and how I…

"Maybe you don't know what the nights are like for people who can't sleep," the poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote in his …

It had been the worst day in a string of very, very bad days. I was desperate and angry and sad and getting drunker…