When did a video game really surprise you for the first time? I’m not talking about a great cutscene or memorable sound track. I’m...
In the early days of the eighth console generation, Rocksteady left us with what felt like the final legacy of Batman in gaming, and the...
For many of us, when we think of coming-of-age games, titles like Life is Strange are the first to come to mind. Mixtape is a story-driven...
When games like Hellblade and Celeste proved that psychological struggles could be portrayed through the language of video games in deeply...
While the first The Last of Us is a textbook example of ludonarrative resonance, its sequel introduces a profound ludonarrative dissonance...
After 360 hours of gameplay, our senior reviewer Hashem Habibian explores why Crimson Desert’s world feels more alive than its...
You’ve probably seen those small, quiet restaurants before—places that are out of the way and not too fancy or expensive. They...
It feels like just yesterday that Sucker Punch’s “red-bearded Kurosawa” (yes, I’m talking about the Red Beard himself) brought Jin...
I remember back at Gamescom 2024, I interviewed more than fifteen indie studios—all of them working on metroidvania projects—and the...
If you’re a fan of Point & Click adventures, the name Ron Gilbert along with the legendary Monkey Island probably rings a bell. While...
