The Outer Side

E3 2019 brought us demos and details about games we can’t wait to play, like Link’s Awakening and the Final Fantasy…

After Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, the titular character went into retirement—both in the series’ fiction and real…

The Elder Scroll: Blades is finally out, at least in early access, and playable on iPhones or Android devices. While Blades…

The best video game sidequests are detours worth taking. They can be even more delightful than a good game’s main…

Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake’s defining attribute is texture. Metal Gear shaped an initial world, and Metal Gear 2…

Marvel’s Spider-Man on PS4 doesn’t have an online mode, or microtransactions. For a game of its size, it’s gotten…

Metal Gear wants the player to fail. The game’s rough edges are part of the growing pains of an early genre, but…

Yesterday, Overwatch added a hamster. The hamster’s name is Hammond, or Hammy for short. In a game about cyborg…

E3, a show in which the future of gaming pretends to be in the present, is in the past. Those demos that may or may…

The first few months of Overwatch League’s inaugural season have already resulted in unexpected upsets, emerging…