You'd think Sid Meier's Civilization--a game built on the same successful foundations for 34 years now--would be one of the most dependable video game series on
With Warner Bros. owning Adult Swim, it sometimes feels like only a matter of time before the adult-oriented animation channel gets sent to the tax writeoff mines. Which makes its
Hot on the heels of an unsuccessful 25-hour attempt to enjoy Dragon Age: The Veilguard, my first couple hours with Eternal Strands, the new action-adventure game from a studio co-founded
This article first appeared February 4 on Rascal, an "independent, reader-supported, worker-owned outlet for journalism about tabletop roleplaying games and the people who make them." Rascal is having
After spending almost two hours with the Death Howl demo, I realized that the most important aspect of any so-called “soulslike” video game is the vibes.
I have long loathed
Back in the mid-90s, Japanese studio Genki were responsible for a series of games called Shutokō Battle, known (mostly) in the West as Tokyo Xtreme Racer. From 1994-2006 these games
Lonely Mountains: Downhill is one of my favorite games, a 2019 mountain biking sort of racer/ sort of Zen exploration of a virtual wilderness. Developer Megagon released a skiing-focused sequel
Grand Theft Hamlet is a documentary that follows two out-of-work actors, struggling during UK covid lockdowns, trying to stage a production of Hamlet in Rockstar’s online game. It tells
This morning, thanks to the folks at RockPaperShotgun, I checked out the Steam demo for Locator, which calls itself a “Geoguessr-inspired detective game set on an alien planet.” I’m
