The Basement

Over the weekend, a new season of anime Cardcaptor Sakura premiered, after being off the air since 2000. Although…

Your bread-and-butter Dungeons & Dragons party won’t include a manticore, a gargoyle, a hyena or a sentient fungi,…

How do you follow the biggest role-playing game of all time? How do you look at Final Fantasy VII and make something…

It is the future. A young man, arms strong from competing with 100 other shoppers every day to be the only person to…

On a Sunday morning in September, Typhoon Talim was flooding the western part of Japan with a torrential downpour,…

Almost no one played as Blanka in Street Fighter IV. This is because the low-tier green Brazilian is weird, doesn’t…

Look at this door.

South Park: The Fractured But Whole has sentiment. This might be a surprise given the television show’s notoriety…

The madam Queen Tepe met me near a bustling harbor in Final Fantasy XIV. “Will you be coming to the mansion?” she…

The first half of 2017 was crammed with exceptional games. That high tide ebbed in May, and I’ve spent the last…