Few series continue to influence entire industries three decades down the line – fewer still if we’re talking about relatively obscure Japanese role-playing games. Suikoden, however, fits that bill. The
Monster Hunter Wilds is absurdly popular, but depending on who you talk to, it might’ve gone a little too far in its quest to reach the widest audience possible.
By far the biggest, most disheartening industry news of the week was WB’s sudden closure of three studios, including Monolith, creators of classics like Blood, F.E.A.R.
What a week Microsoft has had. On one hand, it published a clear game of the year contender in Avowed, a fantasy role-playing game jam-packed with surprises and inventive touches.
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
