They say familiarity breeds contempt, and video games often ask you to get extremely familiar with them. This might…
I don’t trust waypoints anymore. You know, those little icons on video game maps that show you where your goal is?…
I recently got my hands on Daemon X Machina, the new mech action game for the Nintendo Switch, and I was immediately…
Since video games have significantly lower stakes than real-world decisions, I am, as a rule, happy to be a reckless…
I vividly remember when Final Fantasy VIII came out in February 1999. I coveted it for months but didn’t get it…
Final Fantasy VIII Remastered is finally here, which means I can continue my long and storied history of never…
No game is more controversial among my friends than Overcooked 2, a relatively innocuous game about cooking, plating…
For the last couple months, I’ve been trying to get into Stellaris in a big way—partly because the game is one of…
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Control, a Metroid Prime-like game that takes place inside an impossibly vast US federal government building, is out…
Recently, a close friend of mine returned after having been out of town for a little while—like way out of town,…
When I was in my impressionable pre-teen years, I spent vast amounts of my summer tucked away in a musty little…
Role-playing games are one of my favorite genres. They’re also the genre I came latest to. I didn’t play video games…
Fire Emblem: Three Houses has been a little bit of a slow burn for me. While I’ve been a fan of the series since Awak…
In Dragon Quest Builders 2, you play as a little anime friend who knows how to build stuff in a world where building…
As far back as I can remember, I, like Ray Liotta, have always wanted to be a Warlock. My daddy was a Warlock. His…
Yesterday I logged on to Destiny 2 for the first time in a very long while, intent on clearing out a chunk of the…
I have spent most of the last week feeling incredibly hyped for Fire Emblem: Three Houses, one of a handful of games…
One of my favorite games of the last several years is Facepalm Games’ The Swapper. I like it for a lot of reasons:…
In Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, you play as a woman who must traverse a labyrinthine castle full of monsters…
Some time before I actually finished The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, I stopped playing. It wasn’t because I…