Win or Lose

I captured a Suicune ten minutes into playing The Crown Tundra, the second part of Pokémon Sword and Shield’s…

You know how parents quantify the passage of time to an excited child in the number of sleeps? Well, instead of…

While plenty of games over the last few years have let lightsaber and blaster fans live out their dreams, it’s been…

The past few years have made us all pretty numb to the depths of human depravity, but large swathes of people still…

In most games, roadside villages are respites—hard-earned rests for weary travelers. In Pendragon, a…

The last official League of Legends board game was a pretty lavish affair, a tower defence experiment with nice…

Most tactical games condition you to avoid failure. In XCOM, once a character dies, they’re gone. Same for Fire…

I am, by nature, regrettably competitive. I like winning—big fan of not falling on my face and eating shit, here—but…

When Among Us, a game of deception set in deep space, was first conceived a few years ago, online multiplayer wasn’t…

Every once in a while, you come across a phenomenon that refuses to fit neatly into the otherwise universal boxes of…