The Branch

Unravel, which stars a little red knitted character called Yarny, is unusually personal. It is an intimate game,…

Every New Year’s Eve in Taiwan, the staff at local McDonald’s restaurants cosplay. This year, some of the threads…

This holiday season, I received the most precious gift of all: a bit of free time. I ended up using it mostly to…

Imagine, for a second, that you work for the U.S. or European branch of Konami. It’s a cool job—you get to handle…

The sudden end to Project M’s development yesterday has turned the Super Smash Bros. community on its head. No one’s…

You’ll spend a lot of Fallout 4 fighting irradiated super mutants, giant killer cockroaches, and deadly cyborgs.…

It’s been a rough time for Payday 2. Adding microtransactions to a game that promised to never have them, combined…

There are several aspects of EA and Ghost Games’ dark and rainy Need for Speed reboot that I enjoy immensely. Due to…

If you’ve been on the gaming parts of the internet over the past month, you’ve probably seen or heard something…

For years, Payday 2’s developers insisted the game wouldn’t have microtransactions. That changed last week, and the…