The Idle

The third day after embarking on a multi-week speedrun of Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean, a streamer…

The massive popularity of 1996's Pokémon Red and Blue has cast a long shadow over the Pokémon series. Much of the…

My children used to love playing with colorful plastic blocks. Then they discovered iPad entertainment, and there…

Crunch, or the process of video game developers working very long hours for a very long time, is a big problem. I…

It’s been a dramatic handful of days for Steam. Infamous shovelware developer Digital Homicide sued 100 Steam users…

I have an overactive imagination. When I read books, I imagine myself as being in the book’s world, as sharing the…

This is Raccoon, my new World of Warcraft rogue, looking dapper at level 24. This screenshot was taken on Friday…

A lot of us that write about games end up here kind of by mistake. I did—when I left college I had very different…

Hardship is a social glue, especially in games. Shared victories and mutual defeat, confusion, frustration— these…

Today on Highlight Reel we have well-placed bombs, Ana teams, immolated characters, slams, and much more!