Word Wise

A history of how a video game is conceived, developed and marketed

2014 was a weird, wooly year for video games. The big new consoles were finding their feet, and most of the games we…

Shadow of Mordor is one of the best games I played this year. I had high hopes for Lord of the Hunt, its first major…

After dozens of hours of closing rifts, destroying red lyrium veins, and maybe even defeating some dragons, you…

Over the past few weeks, we've taken a detailed look at specific aspects of Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax, a…

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

If I were to sum up OneChanbara Z2: Chaos in four words, they would be “blood,” “swords,” “zombies,” and…

"I started this game collecting trash," my character quipped late in Sunset Overdrive, "and now I'm collecting trash…

We normally think of game ratings as little more than a useful marker of where we'll be able to buy a game, or…

Earlier this week, Techland announced that its new zombie-killing adventure Dying Light will have "50+ hours of…