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Once a novelty, full-motion video is now a useful tool for game designers
By Farouk Kannout December 11, 2025 | 1:00pm
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Hades II—and its heroine—asks why we fight for the status quo
By Madeline Blondeau December 11, 2025 | 9:00am
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After 20 years of airbending, Avatar Legends delivers the series' first good game
By Elijah Gonzalez December 10, 2025 | 11:00am
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20 years ago, Animal Crossing: Wild World proved the series was here to stay
By Elijah Gonzalez December 5, 2025 | 2:00pm
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What PAX Unplugged tells us about the future of tabletop gaming
By Cameron Kunzelman December 5, 2025 | 10:00am
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Asbury Pines is the best-written idle game in nearly a decade
By William Hughes December 5, 2025 | 7:00am
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Yakuza 0 Director's Cut makes a great game worse while erasing gaming history
By Elijah Gonzalez December 4, 2025 | 1:00pm
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Rereleased after 43 years, this infamous Atari 2600 game is a brutalist take on Pac-Man
By Garrett Martin December 4, 2025 | 11:00am
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Scrabdackle turns a notebook into the best vehicle for discovery
By Wallace Truesdale December 2, 2025 | 12:00pm
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Netflix Party Games marks the streamer's latest unconvincing push into gaming
By Elijah Gonzalez December 1, 2025 | 7:00am
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Dungeons & Dragons sticks to the Forgotten Realms with its two new Faerûn books
By Cameron Kunzelman November 28, 2025 | 2:00pm
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Kirby Air Riders is a so-so racing game, but a nifty little addiction
By William Hughes November 28, 2025 | 7:00am
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Dispatch shows how player choice doesn't always work with telling a story
By Willa Rowe November 27, 2025 | 2:00pm
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Board games are always on the table at PAX Unplugged
By Keith Law November 26, 2025 | 3:00pm
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Insert credit: Games still struggle to credit the people who actually make them
By Catherine Masters November 26, 2025 | 11:00am
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Keep Thanksgiving on track this year with these family-perfect multiplayer games
By Bee Wertheimer November 25, 2025 | 9:00am
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A quest for relevance: Dragon Quest's remakes search for the impact it had in the '80s
By Dia Lacina November 24, 2025 | 10:00am
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Baby Steps is one of the best single-player multiplayer games ever made
By William Hughes November 21, 2025 | 8:00am
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Dragon Quest VII Reimagined imagines a less bloated role-playing game
By Moises Taveras November 20, 2025 | 10:00am
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Princess Zelda reckons with her legacy and reclaims her legend in Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Imprisonment
By Madeline Blondeau November 19, 2025 | 3:00pm
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Animal Crossing lost a bit of its soul when it turned the player into a god
By Catherine Masters November 18, 2025 | 4:00pm
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The A.V. Club Games announces a new era
By Garrett Martin November 17, 2025 | 2:32pm
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Even the most action-heavy Zelda game in years is still too damn talky
By William Hughes November 14, 2025 | 11:00am
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2025 is the year of the Musou game
By Marc Normandin November 14, 2025 | 11:00am
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Arcane Eats aims to offer its own flavor of roguelike deckbuilding
By Elijah Gonzalez November 13, 2025 | 10:35am
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I miss Nintendo 3DS StreetPass, and games as physical community
By Farouk Kannout November 7, 2025 | 2:05pm
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ARC Raiders is the most miserable a game has made us in a minute
By William Hughes November 7, 2025 | 11:00am
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Bounty Star wants to be the mecha western David Milch never wrote
By Garrett Martin November 6, 2025 | 2:00pm
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Marvel Cosmic Invasion shows why beat 'em ups are perfect for superheroes
By Wallace Truesdale November 3, 2025 | 12:00pm
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Wait, that Egg game is evil, actually
By Elijah Gonzalez November 3, 2025 | 10:11am
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Will You Go Down?: Silent Hill 2 and the Male Loneliness Epidemic
By Diego Nicolás Argüello October 31, 2025 | 5:30pm
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Six Missing Children Have Haunted These Arcade Cabinets For Decades. Why?
By Madeline Blondeau October 31, 2025 | 2:30pm
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2025 is the year of the big, completely unnecessary obstacle course in video games
By William Hughes October 31, 2025 | 2:00pm
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The Death of Adventure Games: The Cat Mustache Was Never the Issue Here
By Dia Lacina October 31, 2025 | 12:30pm
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Silent Hill f Is the Series' Most Profound Reckoning with the Horror of Home
By Grace Benfell October 30, 2025 | 1:30pm
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In 1985, gaming tried—and failed—to come to terms with Stephen King
By William Hughes October 30, 2025 | 9:00am
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Beware of Falling into Ball x Pit
By Garrett Martin October 29, 2025 | 4:55pm
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It's Time for This Cult Classic Shoot 'Em Up to Get a Rerelease
By Marc Normandin October 29, 2025 | 1:00pm
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Keeper Is the Redemption Arc for Spike Jonze's IKEA Lamp Commercial
By Maddy Myers October 28, 2025 | 1:00pm
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Getting Clean with Powerwash Simulator 2
By Moises Taveras October 28, 2025 | 11:30am
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The Enigma Trilogy Is a Terrifying, Timely Horror Saga for the ChatGPT Era
By Toussaint Egan October 27, 2025 | 1:15pm
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Fractured Blooms' Demo Is A Striking Vertical Slice With Shades of PT
By Elijah Gonzalez October 27, 2025 | 12:00pm
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The Annual Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival Makes Halloween Special Again
By October 27, 2025 | 11:40am
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Pokémon Fans Are Redefining the Art of Card Collecting
By October 24, 2025 | 4:00pm
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Rock Band 4's Delisting Underscores the Impermanence of Licensed Soundtracks
By Diego Nicolás Argüello October 24, 2025 | 3:00pm
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The Pokémon Legends Z-A Soundtrack Breaks A Series Rule—And Brings Lumiose To Life
By Madeline Blondeau October 24, 2025 | 1:45pm
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EA Sports Mastered the Video Game Soundtrack During the PlayStation Era
By Colette Arrand October 24, 2025 | 12:29pm
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As time runs out on 2025, what "must-play" games have you missed?
By William Hughes October 24, 2025 | 8:00am
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Life Is Strange Endures a Decade Later Thanks To Its Music
By October 23, 2025 | 3:04pm
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The Michigan Dogman Lurks on the Tabletop
By Cameron Kunzelman October 23, 2025 | 2:01pm
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We have no objections to Ace Attorney's action-packed music
By Marc Normandin October 22, 2025 | 2:15pm
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We Have No Objections to Ace Attorney's Action-Packed Music
By Marc Normandin October 22, 2025 | 1:21pm
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Reunion is a great post-car-crash game
By Wallace Truesdale October 21, 2025 | 5:30pm
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The strength of Super Metroid's soundtrack is in its silences
By Maddy Myers October 21, 2025 | 4:27pm
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What Is Call of Duty Scared Of?
By Moises Taveras October 21, 2025 | 2:43pm
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The Strength of Super Metroid's Soundtrack Is in Its Silences
By Maddy Myers October 21, 2025 | 1:30pm
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Reunion Is A Great Post-Car Crash Game
By October 20, 2025 | 12:00pm
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How Games Turn Us into Nature Photographers
By October 20, 2025 | 11:00am
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Silent Hill f Returns the Series To What It Always Should Have Been: An Anthology
By Elijah Gonzalez October 17, 2025 | 2:00pm
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Super Mario Galaxy 1+2 Is A New Template For HD Remasters
By Madeline Blondeau October 17, 2025 | 12:00pm
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Shorter Games with Worse Graphics Really Would Be Better For Everyone, Actually
By Grace Benfell October 17, 2025 | 10:45am
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Have we smashed into the ceiling of which games you can turn into a "roguelike"?
By William Hughes October 17, 2025 | 10:00am
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Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl Songs as Video Games
By October 16, 2025 | 2:47pm
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Whether 8-Bit, 16-Bit, or Battle Royale, It's Always Super Mario Bros.
By Marc Normandin October 15, 2025 | 3:15pm
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Lumines Arise's Hypnotic Block Dropping Is So Good That It Transcends Genre
By Elijah Gonzalez October 15, 2025 | 1:00pm
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I’ve Turned on Battlefield 6’s Senseless Destruction
By Moises Taveras October 14, 2025 | 3:30pm
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Ghost of Yotei Reminded Me of the Magic of the PS5 DualSense Controller
By Maddy Myers October 14, 2025 | 12:15pm
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Steam’s Wishlist Function Is Missing One Crucial Feature
By Toussaint Egan October 13, 2025 | 3:30pm
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The Future of Kid-Friendly Online Spaces
By October 13, 2025 | 2:30pm
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In the End, Hades II Played Us All
By Diego Nicolás Argüello October 10, 2025 | 2:00pm
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Nintendo's Mario Galaxy remasters are a return to the tyranny of motion controls
By William Hughes October 10, 2025 | 11:00am
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Hades II's Ill-Defined, Unserious World Undermines the Depth and Power of Mythology
By Grace Benfell October 9, 2025 | 1:00pm
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Create Your Own Puzzles and Stories with Rillem
By Cameron Kunzelman October 9, 2025 | 11:00am
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2XKO’s $100 Arcane Skins Are the Latest Bummer for Fighting Game Fans
By Elijah Gonzalez October 8, 2025 | 3:00pm
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Nintendo's Baseball History: Why Ken Griffey Jr. and the Seattle Mariners Should Be Honorary Smash Bros.
By Marc Normandin October 8, 2025 | 1:00pm
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Don’t Stop, Girlypop! Channels Old School Shooter Fun Alongside Y2K ‘Tude
By Elijah Gonzalez October 8, 2025 | 9:14am
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Ghost of Yōtei and Assassin's Creed Shadows Have Refreshingly Different Heroines
By Maddy Myers October 7, 2025 | 12:15pm
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Yakuza Kiwami 3 and the Case Against Game Remakes
By Moises Taveras October 7, 2025 | 11:00am
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and Roger and Little Nightmares Understand Feeling Small Is More Than Just Being Small
By October 6, 2025 | 1:00pm
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Daimon Blades Is A First Person Slasher Drenched In Blood And Cryptic Mysticism
By Elijah Gonzalez October 6, 2025 | 12:00pm
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The Erotic and Grotesque Roots of Silent Hill f
By Madeline Blondeau October 3, 2025 | 3:10pm
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Time and the Rush of the Tokyo Game Show
By Diego Nicolás Argüello October 3, 2025 | 1:49pm
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Upcoming Horror Game From Spec Ops: The Line Director, Sleep Awake, Is Sensory Overload
By Elijah Gonzalez October 3, 2025 | 10:30am
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Hades II is a reminder that sometimes repetition is just more of what's great
By William Hughes October 3, 2025 | 10:00am
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Is It Accurate to Call Silent Hill f a "Soulslike"?
By Grace Benfell October 2, 2025 | 2:45pm
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Fire Emblem Shadows and Finding the Fun in “Bad” Games
By Elijah Gonzalez October 2, 2025 | 1:22pm
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Marvel’s Spider-Man and Through the Omenpaths Are A Bad Omen For Magic’s Future
By Cameron Kunzelman October 2, 2025 | 12:00pm
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30 Years Ago the Genesis Hit the Road with the Sega Nomad
By Marc Normandin October 1, 2025 | 1:44pm
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Blippo+ Stands Against the Enshittification of TV
By Moises Taveras September 30, 2025 | 12:00pm
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Our Love-Hate Relationship with Silksong's Compass
By Maddy Myers September 30, 2025 | 10:15am
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This Week Was Maps Week
By Garrett Martin September 29, 2025 | 5:15pm
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Unlearning Productivity with Baby Steps
By September 29, 2025 | 1:30pm
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Ananta Wants to Be Marvel’s Spider-Man, And Just About Any Other Game Too
By Diego Nicolás Argüello September 29, 2025 | 11:30am
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We Haven’t Properly Mourned the Death of RPG Overworlds
By Elijah Gonzalez September 26, 2025 | 3:45pm
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No Map, No Problem - Hell Is Us Trusts Players To Discover Its Wartorn World
By Madeline Blondeau September 26, 2025 | 1:15pm
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Keep Driving Understands That Maps Can Be More Than Functional Accessories
By September 26, 2025 | 10:50am
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Baby Steps is way more fun than an endless war with your own feet should be
By William Hughes September 26, 2025 | 7:00am
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You Should Tune in for Weird Heroes of Public Access, a Tabletop RPG for Little Sci-Fi Freaks
By Cameron Kunzelman September 25, 2025 | 2:00pm
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Games Criticism Isn't Dead, But That Doesn't Mean It Can't Get Worse
By Grace Benfell September 25, 2025 | 12:30pm
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Upcoming Mobile Game Monster Hunter Outlanders Looks Suprisingly Faithful, but Its Biggest Test Is Yet To Come
By Elijah Gonzalez September 24, 2025 | 10:30pm
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30 Years Later, Command & Conquer's Excellent Level Design Still Sets It Apart
By Marc Normandin September 24, 2025 | 3:00pm
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Skate Can’t Be Punk, It Never Was
By Moises Taveras September 23, 2025 | 1:50pm
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I Love 1000xRESIST’s Terrible Map
By September 23, 2025 | 11:20am
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How the Nintendo Switch 2 Could Finally Steal Me Away From the Playstation Vita
By Dia Lacina September 22, 2025 | 10:00am
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Towa and the Guardians of the Sacred Tree Proves There's Room for Hades-Likes
By Diego Nicolás Argüello September 19, 2025 | 2:00pm
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SpeedRunners 2: King of Speed Is A Competitive Platformer Aiming To Maintain Its Predecessors’ Momentum
By Elijah Gonzalez September 19, 2025 | 1:00pm
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Recent Star Trek: Lower Decks Hugo winner Warp Your Own Way is fun, but is it a game?
By William Hughes September 19, 2025 | 9:00am
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The Games Behind the Bans: Vile: Exhumed and Girls Purgatoriem
By Grace Benfell September 18, 2025 | 2:15pm
