Game Design

Outriders isn’t what I was expecting. In the lead-up to launch, it looked like one more Destiny-like looter shooter…

If you play video games in the 21st century, you’re no stranger to this: A popular game launches that demands an…

Chinese police have moved against a company billed as the “world’s largest” seller of video game cheats, arresting…

Traditional co-op gaming experiences can sometimes feel similar to solo play: another player picks up a controller,…

Reused NPCs. An environment you’ve already spent dozens of hours in. Contrived progress gating based on time. On…

Today, the Overwatch League announced changes to the way fans can watch its streams.

Video games are expensive. They have been expensive for a very long time, and they keep getting more expensive. To…

Classic Doom players are continuing to pick away at some of the hardest remaining community challenges left, beating…

Former Overwatch League MVP and current Valorant pro Jay “Sinatraa” Won was suspended from his team Sentinels today…

Today, Overwatch announced the PachiMarchi Challenge, the newest event celebrating the game’s weird half-onion,…

While gamers rail against loot boxes, and governments around the world edge ever closer to regulating them,…

Fortnite players who purchased one of Save The World’s randomized Loot Llamas will receive 1000 V-Bucks, developer…

Blizzconline 2021, Blizzard Entertainment’s digital answer to their yearly in-person Blizzcon event, posted its…

Random chance mechanics in video games can be frustrating. Missing a 90% shot in XCOM, when you really need it to…

It’s cool that many modern games include colorblind options, so that those who struggle to differentiate between…

Teamfight Tactics has been out for just over a month, and already Riot games’ entry into the auto-battler genre has…

I was only about 10 hours into The Division 2, a game that I expect I will play for dozens of hours when I realized…

Dreams, Media Molecule’s sandbox for people to create, share, and play one another’s games, has been in closed beta…

The Arkham games are Batman at his best, combining intense action sequences against an iconic gallery of villains…

The enemies in Echo copy any action that you perform until they’re highly dangerous walking death machines. Level…