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Mafia III Was Part of a Daring but Short-Lived Moment in Mainstream Games
By Grace Benfell August 14, 2025 | 1:08pm
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Build Your Own RPG Apocalypse with Ashes Without Number
By Cameron Kunzelman August 14, 2025 | 10:18am
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25 Years Later, Seaman Remains an Absolute Original. Too Bad You Can't Really Play It These Days.
By Marc Normandin August 13, 2025 | 3:33pm
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Battlefield 6’s Open Beta Winds Back The Clock
By Elijah Gonzalez August 13, 2025 | 10:02am
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Time Flies, but It Sinks, Too
By Garrett Martin August 12, 2025 | 3:40pm
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Battlefield's "Back." Now What?
By Moises Taveras August 12, 2025 | 2:00pm
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Sorry, Donkey Kong Bananza, But Ocarina of Time Still Has the Best Music-Playing Mechanic
By Maddy Myers August 12, 2025 | 12:30pm
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Heartworm Grapples With the Trap of Nostalgia
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In 2005, games started rewiring our brains
By William Hughes August 11, 2025 | 7:00am
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Grasping The Ephemeral Analogue In Hidden Memories of the Gardens Between
By Diego Nicolás Argüello August 8, 2025 | 2:00pm
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Whisper Mountain Outbreak Puts A Run-Based Twist On Old School Survival Horror
By Elijah Gonzalez August 8, 2025 | 1:00pm
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Inside The Cancelled Bonk Game: How Hudson’s Ice Age Froze A Cult Mascot’s 3D Debut
By Madeline Blondeau August 8, 2025 | 11:00am
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An ode to "Oh, Banana," the best video game noise of 2025
By William Hughes August 8, 2025 | 7:00am
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Create Scary Monsters and Super Creeps with the One-Page "Autopsy RPG" Dead Saints
By Cameron Kunzelman August 7, 2025 | 3:00pm
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The Esoteric Soulframe Wants to See How Weird a Successful Free-to-Play Game Can Get
By Grace Benfell August 7, 2025 | 11:00am
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Konami's Shoot 'Em Up History Endures with the Excellent Gradius Origins
By Marc Normandin August 6, 2025 | 2:31pm
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The Confusion, Clarity, and Everyday Sadness of And Roger
By Garrett Martin August 5, 2025 | 5:30pm
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Battlefield 6 Looks like the State of the Art in Jingoism and Propaganda
By Moises Taveras August 5, 2025 | 1:46pm
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Marvel Cosmic Invasion Combines Tag Team Mayhem With Classic Beat 'Em Up Charm
By Elijah Gonzalez August 5, 2025 | 11:00am
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Video Game Matchmaking Should Be Based on Personality and Not Just Skill
By Maddy Myers August 5, 2025 | 10:15am
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How To Do Your Video Game Homework
By August 4, 2025 | 2:00pm
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Waging a Propaganda War in The Great Villainess
By August 4, 2025 | 10:12am
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Here Are the Games We're Excited to Play in August
By Garrett Martin, Elijah Gonzalez August 1, 2025 | 5:00pm
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For Those About To Rock, The CRKD Les Paul Guitar Controller Salutes You
By Madeline Blondeau August 1, 2025 | 3:02pm
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Kill Knight Captures Drumming's Multitasking Daze
By Diego Nicolás Argüello August 1, 2025 | 1:00pm
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Ragebound performs a vital bullshit-ectomy on the Ninja Gaiden series
By William Hughes August 1, 2025 | 12:00pm
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Three Storylines To Watch Out For During Evo 2025
By Elijah Gonzalez August 1, 2025 | 9:30am
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Great Villainess: Strategy of Lily Maintains the Social Subversion and Queerness of Its Anime Inspiration
By Elijah Gonzalez July 31, 2025 | 3:15pm
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Magic: The Gathering Fizzles in Space with the New Edge of Eternities Set
By Cameron Kunzelman July 31, 2025 | 2:00pm
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With Its Dwarf Woman Nefi, Tales of the Shire Subverts the Typical Tolkien Adaptation
By Grace Benfell July 31, 2025 | 12:17pm
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The Unlikely Return of Madō Monogatari
By Marc Normandin July 30, 2025 | 12:00pm
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Touch Grass: Mario Kart World, Wheel World, and the Real World
By Moises Taveras July 29, 2025 | 1:30pm
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Nintendo Has Unexpectedly Turned Its Damsels in Distress into Icons for Young Girls
By Maddy Myers July 29, 2025 | 10:32am
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Donkey Kong Bananza Makes It Fun To Be A Completionist Freak
By Elijah Gonzalez July 28, 2025 | 10:00am
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So, How’s The BDS Xbox Boycott Going?
By July 28, 2025 | 9:00am
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Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4’s Soundtrack Remixes Its Legacy
By Diego Nicolás Argüello July 25, 2025 | 2:30pm
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Shadow Labyrinth Is A Brooding Memorial of Pac-Man (and Namco’s) Bygone Glory
By Madeline Blondeau July 25, 2025 | 12:57pm
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How VTuber Ironmouse and Her Peers Brought Down a Company While Raising $1.25 Million For Charity In the Process
By Elijah Gonzalez July 25, 2025 | 11:14am
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2025 is still somehow The Year Of Balatro
By William Hughes July 25, 2025 | 9:00am
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Explore the Horror of Weird Alien Plants in the Tabletop Game Exclusion Zone Botanist
By Cameron Kunzelman July 24, 2025 | 3:00pm
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Hunter x Hunter: Nen Impact and the Problem with Adaptations
By Grace Benfell July 24, 2025 | 1:36pm
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How the Trump Tariffs Are Impacting Board Game Publishers
By Keith Law July 23, 2025 | 2:45pm
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How Donkey Kong Bananza Improves on Both Super Mario Odyssey and Donkey Kong 64
By Marc Normandin July 23, 2025 | 10:30am
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Italians Do It Better Artist JOON Discusses Wheel World and Making Music for Games
By Garrett Martin July 22, 2025 | 2:00pm
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With Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate, an Unsteady Bungie Is Trying Its Best
By Moises Taveras July 22, 2025 | 12:15pm
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The Best Parts of Death Stranding 2 Are When the Characters Acknowledge They're in a Game
By Maddy Myers July 22, 2025 | 10:14am
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It’s OK If We Never Get a Good Superman Game
By July 21, 2025 | 12:30pm
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Jump the Track Proves Visual Novels And Pachinko Can Make a Funny Combo
By July 18, 2025 | 4:20pm
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Nintendo's Next Step with Donkey Kong Bananza Is So Obvious
By Garrett Martin July 18, 2025 | 3:30pm
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The Pendulum Swings Back: On God of War and Sex and Violence in Games
By Diego Nicolás Argüello July 18, 2025 | 1:44pm
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Arcade Archives Brings Macross II To The West—Along With Its Baggage
By Madeline Blondeau July 18, 2025 | 11:30am
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Hey, should Donkey Kong be eating all these giant metal bananas?
By William Hughes July 18, 2025 | 7:00am
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Uma Musume: Pretty Derby Turns an Exploitative Sport into a Predatory Game with a Relentlessly Positive Facade
By Grace Benfell July 17, 2025 | 3:00pm
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Explore Dungeons & Dragons' Dragon Lore with the New Dragon Delves Adventure Book
By Cameron Kunzelman July 17, 2025 | 12:00pm
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With Chapters 3 & 4, Deltarune’s Lovable Little Guys Remain Its Greatest Strength
By Elijah Gonzalez July 17, 2025 | 11:00am
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From the Starward Belt to the Mushroom Kingdom, Body Possession Is Horrifying
By July 16, 2025 | 1:01pm
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Mario Kart World Is For The Speedrunning Freaks (And Everyone Else Too)
By Elijah Gonzalez July 16, 2025 | 9:00am
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Pulls the Same Trick as Wandavision—Except Here, It Works
By Maddy Myers July 15, 2025 | 10:30am
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Ridge Racer's Latest Port Marks A New Era For Arcade Archives
By Marc Normandin July 14, 2025 | 11:30am
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Uma Musume's Horse Girls Blow Past Persona 5: The Phantom X in the Gacha Game Race
By July 14, 2025 | 10:21am
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Postcards from Mario Kart: Roaming an Unsteady World with a Switch 2
By Diego Nicolás Argüello July 11, 2025 | 2:01pm
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Girlhood Is Deadly In Cave’s Classic Shooter Deathsmiles
By Madeline Blondeau July 11, 2025 | 12:08pm
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Type Help is a perfect example of why mystery games are so damn good right now
By William Hughes July 11, 2025 | 7:00am
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Date Everything Is Peak Millennial Cringe
By Grace Benfell July 10, 2025 | 2:00pm
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Not Every Co-Op Game is "Friendslop"
By July 10, 2025 | 1:00pm
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Mycopunk’s Chaotic Co-Op Is Already A Blast, But It Still Has Room To Grow
By Elijah Gonzalez July 10, 2025 | 12:00pm
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Crusade: Armageddon Is a Fascinating Dive into Warhammer 40k's Grimdark Future
By Cameron Kunzelman July 10, 2025 | 9:00am
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Donkey Kong's Identity Crisis
By Marc Normandin July 9, 2025 | 12:04pm
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Rhythm-Platformer Antro Wants to Beat the System with Beats
By Garrett Martin July 8, 2025 | 5:21pm
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Let the First Party Die: Is It that Bad if Game Consoles Really Are Dying?
By Moises Taveras July 8, 2025 | 2:17pm
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The Women of Death Stranding 2 Are Stuck in a Sad Cycle
By Maddy Myers July 8, 2025 | 9:00am
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Seven (Plus One) Classic Tennis Games for the Last Seven Days of Wimbledon
By Dia Lacina July 7, 2025 | 4:42pm
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No Phone Summer: It’s The Summer of the Retro Handheld
By July 7, 2025 | 11:00am
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Woodkid on the Death Stranding 2 Soundtrack and Why Games Could Be the New Music Videos
By Toussaint Egan July 7, 2025 | 9:00am
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When did video games become too lazy to actually teach you how to play them?
By William Hughes July 4, 2025 | 12:00pm
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"We're Allowed to Be Happy": The Impact of Abby Anderson in The Last of Us Part II, Five Years Later
By Madeline Blondeau July 4, 2025 | 12:00pm
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The Freelance Camaraderie of Death Stranding
By Diego Nicolás Argüello July 4, 2025 | 10:30am
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Final Fantasy VII Offers a Way of Living and Working through Catastrophe
By Grace Benfell July 3, 2025 | 1:00pm
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Legends of Runeterra and The Freedom of Playing A “Dead” Game
By Elijah Gonzalez July 3, 2025 | 9:00am
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The Outer Wilds, Nine Sols, And Embracing The End
By Elijah Gonzalez July 2, 2025 | 1:00pm
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Killer7's Influence Continues to Grow 20 Years Later
By Marc Normandin July 2, 2025 | 10:00am
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At Least I Get to Be the Cow
By Moises Taveras July 1, 2025 | 1:00pm
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How One Tiny Gaming Controller Became an Essential Studying Tool
By Nicole Carpenter July 1, 2025 | 10:00am
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We Have Now Entered the Age of Covid-19 Inspired Games
By Maddy Myers July 1, 2025 | 8:00am
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Endless Mode: It's the New Thing
By Garrett Martin July 1, 2025 | 6:00am
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The best games of 2025 (so far)
By A.V. Club Staff June 27, 2025 | 12:00pm
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Death Stranding 2 is the latest front in Hideo Kojima's war on subtlety
By William Hughes June 27, 2025 | 10:00am
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Ambrosia Sky Is a Really Deep Cleaning Game
By Moises Taveras June 24, 2025 | 11:39am
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Nioh 3's demo is a junk food addict's take on Elden Ring
By William Hughes June 20, 2025 | 10:00am
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10 Games We Loved Playing at the Summer Game Fest's Play Days
By Garrett Martin June 19, 2025 | 9:30am
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An Exclusive Preview of the New Dungeons & Dragons Adventure Book Dragon Delves
By Cameron Kunzelman June 18, 2025 | 12:53pm
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F-Zero GX Proves the Switch 2 Can Bring GameCube Rarities Back to Life
By Marc Normandin June 16, 2025 | 12:45pm
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Warwick, Everyone’s Favorite Werewolf Dad, Announced For Riftbound's Inaugural Card Set
By Elijah Gonzalez June 13, 2025 | 11:25am
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Lies Of P: Overture is the right kind of video game fanservice
By William Hughes June 13, 2025 | 11:00am
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Resident Evil Requiem's Demo Recedes Into the Wallpaper
By Garrett Martin June 12, 2025 | 4:09pm
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Shredding the Dunes in Sword of the Sea
By Garrett Martin June 12, 2025 | 12:26pm
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Mixtape Dials In to Universal Nostalgia
By Garrett Martin June 11, 2025 | 3:45pm
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Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4's Pinball Stage Is Cool as Hell
By Garrett Martin June 10, 2025 | 2:25pm
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Riftbound's Free-For-Alls Combine Chaos and Strategy In A Promising TCG Package
By Elijah Gonzalez June 9, 2025 | 4:30pm
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Starlight Re:Volver Aims To Fill A RuneScape-Sized Hole In Our Hearts
By Elijah Gonzalez June 8, 2025 | 12:00pm
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For Better And Worse, The Nintendo Switch 2 Is a Safe Bet
By Elijah Gonzalez June 6, 2025 | 5:56pm
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Mario Kart World Opens Up to the Internet Age
By Garrett Martin June 6, 2025 | 4:30pm
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We've finally got the Switch 2—now what?
By William Hughes June 6, 2025 | 8:00am
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Switch 2: Transferring Data from the Switch Is Quick and Easy
By Garrett Martin June 5, 2025 | 3:37pm
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Horror Game Biophobia Grows A Garden From Grief – And Art
By Madeline Blondeau June 5, 2025 | 2:31pm
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Monster Train 2 is an addictive breaker of brains
By William Hughes May 30, 2025 | 11:00am
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No, the Saturn Didn't Fail Because Sega Didn't Anticipate the Rise of 3D Videogames
By Marc Normandin May 29, 2025 | 1:03pm
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The Drifter Is An Upcoming Carpenter-Inspired Adventure Game With Killer Pixel Art
By Elijah Gonzalez May 29, 2025 | 10:00am
