West Hunt

This is an excerpt from my upcoming book, BLOOD, SWEAT, AND PIXELS, which comes out on September 5 and tells the…

Breath of the Wild’s first big downloadable content dropped last night and it is full of cool items to find. If…

Red Dead Redemption released seven years ago today and remains a triumph. The tale of John Marston’s failure might…

Evidence is mounting that Red Dead Redemption 2 is in fact a prequel to the first game, and by evidence, I mean IMDB…

I love origin stories, especially when they’re related to games.

I was a little kid whose favorite game for a solid eleven years was “pretend.” Neverwinter Nights was an early RPG…

Gaming’s culture war hasn’t ended. It’s still roiling, with new fights, new targets, new depths of ugliness, but…

In 2015, you liked reading about Fallout 4 and The Witcher 3. You liked lists of top games. You mourned the passing…

In the West, Twitch is an internet superpower. In Japan, things couldn’t be more different. Mainstream success will…

Square Enix and developer Tri-Ace’s latest big title, Star Ocean V: Integrity and Faithlessness was playable at this…