Longstanding conventional wisdom suggests that if you’re playing a game, and you intend to stop, but you succumb to the fallacy of “Well, just one more turn,” and then
Whether you consider it a GOTY contender or not, we’ve certainly got our first big game of the year in Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, an open-world RPG that goes
It has been another exceedingly stupid week on planet Earth, the culmination of several nearly-as-stupid weeks before it. One of the most eye-catching jewels in this trash crown: Elon Musk,
Depending on where you’re standing, the video game industry is in a state of caterpillar-like transformation into something new or a full-on crisis. Funding is scarce. Companies are rife
In the past handful of years, the video game industry has attempted to reckon with its history of workplace abuse, both in the form of crunch and managerial misconduct. Big
As we prepare to enter a state of holiday hibernation, we cannot help but reflect on the year that was. And for games media, it sure… was. Layoffs, shakeups, closures,
Video game history is riddled with foundational Horse Moments, whether we’re talking classics like Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Shadow of the Colossus or (slightly) more off-the-beaten-path
Unless there’s imminently mineable gold in the hills of a remaster or re-release, the video game industry rarely displays interest in its own history. Last year, the Video Game
For all that publishers like Ubisoft trumpet from the highest press conference stages how much research they cram into series like Assassin’s Creed, games also get a lot wrong.
For the first time in what feels like eons, we’re in the midst of an actual social media upheaval. Twitter is deflating like a balloon animal riddled with holes
Professional DC Comics expert Alex Jaffe and I have been rereading the ambitious comic book 52 and podcasting about it. We’ve just reached the halfway point, and even if
