Wake the Dead

Mere minutes into Half-Life: Alyx, I encountered a Strider. These behemoths cast ominous shadows on all who dare…

Hello, all you ambulatory wildebeests of self-pollution, and welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the only advice column…

“This is a DC 5,” said Swen Vincke, the charismatic CEO of Larian Studios, during a recent press event for his…

In the wake of the international success of Persona 5 and Dragon Quest XI, perhaps it’s time for publishers to take…

I recently got a Nintendo Switch Lite, and I love it. I wanted to write about the joys of that dying breed of…

Now that it’s 2020, I keep thinking about how it felt to be a woman writing about gender in video games back in 2010.

There’s a quest in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt that best shows why the world Geralt of Rivia inhabits is so easy to get…

Sometimes, as borders erode, new fissures form in their wake. In 2019, more games flowed between PC and other…

Arise: A Simple Story might seem familiar, but looks can be deceiving. It’s not necessarily breaking any molds in…

Every Final Fantasy game has had special meaning to me, even the more controversial ones like X-2 and XIII. While…