This Massive Videogame About High School Is All Demons and Angst—in a Good Way
<em>Persona 5</em>, the latest in a long-running series, is time-consuming and hard to get into, but at its heart it…
Discontinuing the NES Classic Is a Classic Nintendo Mistake
Once again, Nintendo denies people an easy way to play its retro games—for no good reason. The post Discontinuing the…
Making Videogames the Old-Fashioned Way—On a 52-Hour Train Ride
What do you call 300 people on a four-day Amtrak voyage from Chicago to the Bay Area, making videogames all…
Dark Souls 3 Ends the Torture With a Devilish Final Expansion
Dark Souls never makes anything easy. Going into the franchise’s final death-march, it’s easy to ask: why bother? This DLC…
Destiny 2 Needs to Get a Lot Weirder Than Its First Trailer
The sequel is coming this September—but while its new trailer is a fun first look, it’s a parade of missed…
Typeshift Enlightens Word Nerds With Masterful Game Design
The latest from smartphone smart-game guru Zach Gage is an addictive riff on crosswords and a master class in smart…
Everything, a Must-Play Game Like Nothing You’ve Seen Before
A truly unconventional game challenges <em>and</em> delights; this does both by allowing you to be literally anything you want. The…
5 YouTube Gaming Channels That Haven’t Gone Full PewDiePie (Yet)
The world of videogame-related YouTube content can be a minefield—so we’ve got some family-friendly (or at least not wildly problematic)…
5 Clever Quickie Games That Let You Fight the Man
These are just 5 of the 215 titles from Resist Jam, a recent game-development campaign centered around the theme of…
A Game That Perfectly Captures Small-Town Malaise as … a Cat
<em>Night in the Woods</em> is a conversation-heavy adventure game that captures the wild longing of a young person (well, cat)…