The Trail

I bought the original PlayStation just so I could play Final Fantasy VII. Until then, all I’d had was a SNES and a…

Xavier Nelson Jr. is a writer and game developer, famous for his work on games like Hypnospace Outlaw. He recently…

Shortly after the Xbox briefing at E3 2019, I sat down to play Gears 5’s new “Escape” mode, a three-player…

A 1980s style arcade cabinet for Super Smash Bros. Melee now exists, and it’s absolutely stunning.

I was driving fast in a ugly sedan. The police were chasing me and I was trying to lose them. I had robbed a home…

As I was growing up, I hated sports. When I was nine, I quit football after two weeks to my dad’s disappointment. By…

While it’s true that kart racing clashes with the idea of a character who runs super-fast, Sonic the Hedgehog is…

I think I’m bad at role-playing games. I’m far too impatient, too lusty, too easily distracted. I usually leave a…

Before I moved to New York, I used to walk in the woods a lot. Sometimes, I’d drive with friends to mountains or…

“Stories don’t have tidy beginnings,” says the main character of Heaven’s Vault, outer space archaeologist Aliya…