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It's strange to remember just how easily influenced I was. Embarrassing to admit just how obsessively I was able to…

Like Nathan, I played a good four or five hours of The Witcher 3 the other week, and like him, I’ve been oddly…

Destiny players spend the entire game fighting against something called "the darkness." But does anyone really know…

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Mostly because the best Teen Titans show—yep, Young Justice—has already been made. And then canceled.

You know, while I was editing and writing my interview with William Gibson for this piece, I kept lamenting about…

Dragon Age: Inquisition is a fantasy game. That word—fantasy—is a sort of shorthand, with a bunch of connotations.…

Lugdash Broken-Shield. Now there was a tricky orc to assassinate. Until I discovered he was scared of fire. Once I…