In an earlier era of video game design, the most lucrative way to extract money from customers was to pulverize them…

Celeste’s recently added epilogue, Farewell, is an extremely difficult but charming send-off to a fantastic game. A…

Celeste is as perfect a platformer as has ever been made. Its mixture of charming visuals, fantastic music, and…

In a surprise announcement, the folks behind Celeste revealed that the endearing puzzle-platformer will be getting so…

During these dark times of difficulty discourse—in which brothers tear down brothers and Sekiro purists get memed to…

Another year, another nearly one hundred games played.

Last night at Summer Games Done Quick, two tricky games were demolished. The runs of Cuphead and Celeste stole the…

Last week, I realized I have a problem. I’d just finished browsing the Nintendo Switch’s entire eShop for a second…

Celeste seems almost built for speedrunners. With its tight controls and constant dashing, it demands that you play…

Speedrunners can rush through Celeste in about thirty minutes but collecting everything and completing all…

For game developer Matt Thorson, tough-as-nails yet kind-as-kittens platformer Celeste represented a breaking point.…

Last weekend, I spent hours chasing after a single elusive strawberry in Celeste. Over and over again, I kept dying…

Celeste is pure. Each room offers new challenges, but the solution is always the same: jump. Jumping is remixed in…

A few days ago, the game designer Matt Thorson was watching me idly jump around one of the many comically…

Celeste is a game about climbing a mountain. A mountain covered in spikes.