The Road Not Taken

Sometimes I imagine my brain is a collection of baskets that contain everything I know. There’s a basket for the…

Kingdom Come’s inconsistent adherence to hardcore survival and historical elements means that while some parts of…

Destiny 2 launched exactly six months ago today, though at times it feels more like six years. A bunch has changed…

The so-called “fighting game community” is really a blanket term for an archipelago of dozens of games and scenes of…

One Sunday morning a few weekends ago, I opened up my computer to play some video games. I had a mess of games to…

Food is such an important part of our lives, so I’m always curious about its portrayal in games, especially the…

For the 12th straight year I’ve made a list of the video games I’ve played in the past 12 months. I’ve tweaked the…

It was a Christmas miracle of sorts. On December 25 Ryan Gibbs beat his previous world record speedrun for the…

I’ve played approximately two billion video games this year. Narrowing that list down to 10 was a painful and bloody…

In a year when PC gaming became more multifaceted and complicated than ever, it also popularized a genre—battle…