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This quiet, sad detective game is an antidote for gaming excess
By William Hughes March 7, 2025 | 11:00am
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Atomfall: A Very British Nuclear Disaster
By Garrett Martin March 7, 2025 | 9:00am
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Absolum Is A Fresh Take On Beat ‘Em Ups From The Streets of Rage 4 Devs
By Elijah Gonzalez March 4, 2025 | 11:00am
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Keep On Truxton: The Soothing Stress of Shoot 'Em Ups
By Garrett Martin March 3, 2025 | 3:19pm
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Avowed understands the appeal of a lil' Waterfall Treasure
By William Hughes February 28, 2025 | 9:00am
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Splitgate 2 Is Still A Fun Halo/Portal Mashup, But Faces A Brutal Shooter Market
By Elijah Gonzalez February 27, 2025 | 12:00pm
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30 Years Ago Phantasy Star IV Pulled Off Final Fantasy VII's Big Plot Twist First
By Marc Normandin February 26, 2025 | 1:30pm
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Galaga Wars+: Is a Shmup a Shmup If You Don't Actually Shmup?
By Garrett Martin February 25, 2025 | 1:30pm
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Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves Is A Deep, Rewarding Fighting Game With Very Fixable Problems
By Elijah Gonzalez February 25, 2025 | 11:00am
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Monster Hunter Wilds Would Be Better If We Could Play as the Weird Cat Sidekicks
By Garrett Martin February 24, 2025 | 3:19pm
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Die in the Dungeon High Rolls Its Way To Deckbuilding Bliss
By Elijah Gonzalez February 21, 2025 | 10:15am
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So far, Elden Ring: Nightreign is Dark Souls minus the soul
By William Hughes February 21, 2025 | 9:00am
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Avowed's Best Build Makes Me a Lightning-Charged Man of God
By Garrett Martin February 20, 2025 | 10:30am
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Monster Train 2 Seems On Track For More Card-Based Thrills
By Elijah Gonzalez February 19, 2025 | 10:00am
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Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii Is The Dumb Pirate Game We've Desperately Needed
By Elijah Gonzalez February 18, 2025 | 10:00am
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Eternal Strands: If you're going to steal, steal from the best
By William Hughes February 14, 2025 | 9:00am
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What does it actually mean for a video game to be "horny"?
By Grace Benfell February 12, 2025 | 2:00pm
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Elden Ring Nightreign Hands-on Preview: A New Trip Through The Lands Between
By Garrett Martin February 12, 2025 | 9:00am
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Press X to get dumped: 10 instances of video game romantic rejection
By William Hughes February 11, 2025 | 1:00pm
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South of Midnight Is No Carpetbagger
By Garrett Martin February 11, 2025 | 11:00am
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Monster Hunter Wilds Gives Us a Welcome New World to Escape Into
By Moises Taveras February 11, 2025 | 10:00am
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Citizen Sleeper 2 only makes sense when it's hurting you
By William Hughes February 7, 2025 | 10:00am
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Dynasty Warriors: Origins Overwhelms in the Best Way
By Garrett Martin February 6, 2025 | 11:32am
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33 Immortals Is a 33 Player Roguelike About Breaking Out of Hell
By Elijah Gonzalez February 4, 2025 | 1:36pm
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Civilization VII: The Beginning of a New Age
By Garrett Martin January 31, 2025 | 11:00am
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Is there such a thing as too much game?
By William Hughes January 31, 2025 | 10:00am
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Bodies and Long-Term Harm: Gareth Damian Martin Discusses Citizen Sleeper 2
By Cameron Kunzelman January 29, 2025 | 12:30pm
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What Marvel Rivals and Overwatch Can Learn From Each Other
By Nico Deyo January 27, 2025 | 3:38pm
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Happy 40th, Gradius, You Absolute Bastard
By Garrett Martin January 24, 2025 | 3:28pm
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Dynasty Warriors: Origins Brings the Series to New Heights
By Marc Normandin January 24, 2025 | 12:39pm
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Can Doom: The Dark Ages live up to the gory perfection of 2016's Doom?
By William Hughes January 24, 2025 | 10:00am
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We Could All Use a New Civilization Right Now
By Garrett Martin January 23, 2025 | 12:17pm
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The A.V. Club's most anticipated games of 2025
By William Hughes January 18, 2025 | 11:00am
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One of our favorite games of 2023 just got a gorgeous new version
By William Hughes January 17, 2025 | 10:00am
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Hyper Light Breaker’s Early Access Launch Has a Decent Foundation, But A Long Way To Go
By Elijah Gonzalez January 16, 2025 | 1:00pm
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Kind Words 2 Is The Perfect Game For This Nightmare Moment
By Elijah Gonzalez January 15, 2025 | 12:29pm
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There's No Shame in Taking It Easy: Playing Baldur's Gate 3 on Explorer Mode
By Garrett Martin January 14, 2025 | 2:44pm
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Resident Evil 4 at 20: 2005's Best Game Still Doesn't Need a Remake
By Marc Normandin January 10, 2025 | 2:30pm
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How are you getting through the January gaming dead zone?
By William Hughes January 10, 2025 | 10:00am
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Let’s Delay All the Games—But Only if Game Companies Do This Too
By Garrett Martin January 9, 2025 | 5:43pm
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The Most Anticipated RPGs of 2025
By Garrett Martin January 8, 2025 | 2:15pm
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Bytes 'n' Blurts: Catching Up on Minishoots and Magequits
By Garrett Martin, Elijah Gonzalez January 3, 2025 | 2:37pm
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The Most Anticipated Games of 2025
By Garrett Martin, Elijah Gonzalez January 3, 2025 | 11:50am
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Not every "gambling but better" game is going to turn out like Balatro
By William Hughes January 3, 2025 | 10:00am
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Crosstalk: Is petting the dog bad, actually?
By A.V. Club Staff December 31, 2024 | 11:00am
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The Great Circle Is the First Great Indiana Jones Action Game
By Marc Normandin December 27, 2024 | 12:15pm
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Make Rise Of The Golden Idol your murderous holiday treat
By William Hughes December 27, 2024 | 10:00am
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The Best Dungeon Crawlers to Delve into this Holiday Season
By Dia Lacina December 26, 2024 | 1:04pm
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The 20 Best Xbox Games of 2024
By Paste Staff December 23, 2024 | 1:31pm
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What was missing from our best games of 2024?
By William Hughes December 20, 2024 | 10:00am
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The 20 Best Switch Games of 2024
By Paste Staff December 19, 2024 | 1:07pm
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The best games of 2024
By A.V. Club Staff December 19, 2024 | 11:00am
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Revenge of the Savage Planet Might Just Have The Right Stuff
By Elijah Gonzalez December 17, 2024 | 9:00am
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The 20 Best PlayStation 5 Games of 2024
By Paste Staff December 16, 2024 | 2:00pm
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30 Years Ago Hideo Kojima's Early Classic Snatcher Received Its Only Official American Release
By Marc Normandin December 16, 2024 | 12:31pm
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Bytes 'n' Blurts: Marvel Overwatch and Some Deeply Confusing Caves
By Garrett Martin, Elijah Gonzalez December 13, 2024 | 2:08pm
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The Best Board Games at PAX Unplugged 2024
By Keith Law December 13, 2024 | 12:06pm
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For a comic book mash-up, Marvel Rivals is hard as hell to read
By William Hughes December 13, 2024 | 9:00am
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Mainstream Media's Coverage of Luigi Mangione's Games Connection Is Embarrassing
By Garrett Martin December 11, 2024 | 11:56am
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8 games, 8 years: How the weird lil' Nintendo DS took over the gaming world
By William Hughes December 9, 2024 | 6:00am
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Bytes 'n' Blurts: Whips, Metaphors, and the Most Disgusting Eggs Ever
By Garrett Martin, Elijah Gonzalez December 6, 2024 | 4:03pm
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Free dress-up game Infinity Nikki is addictively weird
By William Hughes December 6, 2024 | 10:00am
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Jackie Fuchs Talks Rock Hard 1977: From the Runaways to Board Games
By Keith Law December 4, 2024 | 2:54pm
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The 40 Best Games of 2024
By Paste Staff December 3, 2024 | 12:18pm
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Bytes 'n' Blurts: Agonizing Arco and Adorable Animal Athletics
By Garrett Martin, Elijah Gonzalez November 29, 2024 | 2:53pm
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Half-Life 2 at 20: Valve’s Iconic FPS Gave Players the Power to Shape Their World
By Jim Vorel November 29, 2024 | 10:00am
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What's your deep-dive holiday game?
By William Hughes November 29, 2024 | 9:00am
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Voice Actress Briana White On Bringing Aerith To Life, Award Nominations, and Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth’s Ending
By Elijah Gonzalez November 27, 2024 | 3:26pm
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Dragon Quest Is Always Dragon Quest
By Marc Normandin November 27, 2024 | 11:53am
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The 2024 Black Friday Games Guide
By Garrett Martin November 26, 2024 | 5:19pm
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How Four Exercise Games Fit Into My Life
By Joseph Stanichar November 25, 2024 | 12:41pm
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Bytes 'n' Blurts: A Post-Nuke Texas, Lo-Fi Carnage, and Deadly Job Offers
By Garrett Martin, Elijah Gonzalez November 22, 2024 | 6:55pm
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Sorry We’re Closed Is A Perfect Breakup Recovery Simulator, Demons Included
By Elijah Gonzalez November 22, 2024 | 1:41pm
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Why the hell can't an Elden Ring expansion be a Game Of The Year contender?
By William Hughes November 22, 2024 | 8:00am
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The Nintendo DS Turns 20 Today. Will We Ever Play These Games Again?
By Marc Normandin November 21, 2024 | 12:28pm
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25 Years Ago, Pokémon Gold and Silver Proved the Series Was Here to Stay
By Elijah Gonzalez November 20, 2024 | 12:45pm
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There's a New Videogame Awards Show and It Might Actually Be Okay
By Garrett Martin November 19, 2024 | 5:03pm
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard Doesn't Protect Its Most Precious Little Guys
By Garrett Martin November 18, 2024 | 3:54pm
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Bytes 'n' Blurts: Neva, Interactive Tetris Documentaries, and a Lackluster Lego Game
By Garrett Martin, Elijah Gonzalez November 15, 2024 | 12:05pm
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Mario & Luigi: Brothership shows why the Switch is a good system, not a great handheld
By William Hughes November 15, 2024 | 8:00am
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The 20 Best Xbox Series X|S Games of the 2020s So Far
By Paste Staff November 12, 2024 | 1:47pm
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Bytes 'n' Blurts: Playing Through It with Veilguard, Pokémon and Grimstone
By Garrett Martin, Elijah Gonzalez November 8, 2024 | 4:29pm
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a garbage-collection sim that wishes it was an RPG
By William Hughes November 8, 2024 | 8:00am
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Metal Slug Tactics Is a Great Strategy Game Trapped in a So-So Roguelike
By Elijah Gonzalez November 5, 2024 | 9:00am
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The Silent Hill 2 remake is a horror game with the lights on
By Grace Benfell November 2, 2024 | 12:00pm
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Bytes 'n' Blurts: Shadows of the Damned, Dragon Age, and More
By Garrett Martin, Elijah Gonzalez November 1, 2024 | 4:42pm
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6 hours with the Monster Hunter Wilds beta suggests this one's for the action perverts
By William Hughes November 1, 2024 | 10:00am
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard's Creative Director Talks Restoring the Lore
By Garrett Martin October 31, 2024 | 5:26pm
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Sonic X Shadow Generations Shows the Right Way to Remaster a Game
By Marc Normandin October 30, 2024 | 3:07pm
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UFO 50's Strategy Game Party House Deserves a Standalone Release
By Garrett Martin October 28, 2024 | 4:13pm
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Bytes 'n' Blurts: Atari Deep Dives, Retro Mashups, and Super Smash-Likes
By Garrett Martin, Elijah Gonzalez October 25, 2024 | 4:28pm
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Do yourself a favor, and make more ugly characters in video games
By William Hughes October 25, 2024 | 10:00am
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The 50 Best Games of the 2020s So Far
By Paste Staff October 24, 2024 | 1:46pm
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Bytes 'n' Blurts: Dragon Ball, Helldivers, and Balatro
By Garrett Martin, Elijah Gonzalez October 18, 2024 | 12:55pm
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Satisfactory kicks you in a hole, murders you, and makes you like it
By William Hughes October 18, 2024 | 7:00am
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Everything I Know about Dragon Ball Comes from Videogames
By Garrett Martin October 17, 2024 | 7:09pm
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The Legend of Zelda and the Ethics of Echoes
By Garrett Martin October 14, 2024 | 4:10pm
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Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero is accurate Dragon Ball—for good and ill
By William Hughes October 11, 2024 | 10:00am
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Silent Hill 2 Remake Is Good, But It’s Missing What Made The Original Special: Camp
By Elijah Gonzalez October 10, 2024 | 1:00pm
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UFO 50 And the Joy of Discovery
By Elijah Gonzalez October 7, 2024 | 10:45am
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Be Patient with Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom’s Most Annoying Feature: Its Combat
By Garrett Martin October 4, 2024 | 12:17pm
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Game Theory: Echoes Of Wisdom is Nintendo's latest effort to blow up The Legend Of Zelda
By William Hughes October 4, 2024 | 10:00am
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Balatro Goes Mobile, Challenging Us to Remain Strong
By Garrett Martin October 2, 2024 | 10:30am
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We pick the best, worst, and weirdest games from four decades of The Legend Of Zelda
By Anthony John Agnello September 28, 2024 | 10:00am
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Why Do We Even Want to Be Space Marines?
By Dia Lacina September 27, 2024 | 1:30pm
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Game Theory: Congratulations, Frostpunk 2 is exactly as miserable as it wants to be
By William Hughes September 27, 2024 | 10:00am
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Shogun Showdown Will Be Your Next Roguelike Deckbuilder Obsession
By Elijah Gonzalez September 26, 2024 | 12:46pm
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Boss Rush: Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy’s Snake Obstacle Is Unforgiving and Unforgettable
By Elijah Gonzalez September 25, 2024 | 11:00am
