The New Resistance

Unable to wait for its nebulous spring release in the United States, I went undercover as a Canadian to get my hands…

Persona 5 is a really good game. It’s also complicated and occasionally unforgiving, with a ton of rules to learn…

Over the past three decades console game controllers have evolved from utilitarian rectangles to sleek works of…

Nier Automata is a game that gains meaning through repetition. The ending to the game changes following multiple…

“I wanted a game that hated me.” That was how Sean Plott, also known as “Day9” in the professional gaming world,…

Beautiful platformers stand side by side with state surveillance simulators in ResistJam. Focused on projects that…

I thought I was done with roguelikes, but Streets of Rogue pulled me back in. The game sprinkles gobs of Deus Ex DNA…

As long-running games evolve, the older bits of design begin to show their rust. For a game with a lifespan like Leag…

Kitty Horrorshow was the first game maker to tell me she was a witch, and it wasn’t a joke. On the contrary,…

In the first few minutes of Final Fantasy VI, just when you think you’ve got a sense of the game’s rhythm,…