Games Features
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- What are you playing this weekend? By Matt Gerardi December 1, 2017 | 6:00am
- What are you playing this Thanksgiving weekend? By Matt Gerardi November 22, 2017 | 6:00am
- Nintendo struck open-world gold by making exploration its own reward By Matt Gerardi November 17, 2017 | 7:24pm
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- How Wolfenstein II makes its difficulty matter By Matt Gerardi November 10, 2017 | 8:24pm
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- PSA: Come play Mario Kart 8 with the Gameological community tonight By Matt Gerardi November 8, 2017 | 7:05pm
- Maybe Resident Evil’s crappy controls were a new take on a classic horror cliché By Matt Gerardi November 3, 2017 | 8:22pm
- Super Mario Odyssey saves its best and worst surprises for last By Matt Gerardi November 3, 2017 | 4:57pm
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- Wolfenstein's Nazi-killing mayhem is at its best when it's fucking with your head By William Hughes November 2, 2017 | 4:54pm
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- Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus is as subtle as punching a Nazi in the face By William Hughes October 26, 2017 | 4:41pm
- Super Mario Odyssey is the game Nintendo has been building to for decades By Matt Gerardi October 26, 2017 | 1:00pm
- Minecraft can be a surprisingly effective horror game By Matt Gerardi October 20, 2017 | 8:30pm
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- The best way to beat Shadow Of War’s final act is not to play it By Matt Gerardi October 19, 2017 | 6:00pm
- Why are games like Stardew Valley so darn satisfying? By Matt Gerardi October 13, 2017 | 7:30pm
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- Middle-Earth: Shadow Of War can’t decide if it thinks orcs are people too By Matt Gerardi October 12, 2017 | 6:30pm
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- Goofy orcs and epic battles snap Middle-Earth: Shadow Of War out of a rough start By Matt Gerardi October 5, 2017 | 1:00pm
- What a horrible, wonderful, beautiful thing Destiny 2’s raid is By Clayton Purdom October 4, 2017 | 6:00pm
- Why does online gaming have to be so anxiety inducing? By Matt Gerardi September 29, 2017 | 8:17pm
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- Destiny 2 still awkwardly demands that you become a "gamer" By Clayton Purdom September 25, 2017 | 12:30pm
- Why The Colonel's Bequest is one of adventure gaming's most underrated gems By Matt Gerardi September 22, 2017 | 6:29pm
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- Does Destiny 2 solve the original game’s storytelling woes? By Matt Gerardi September 15, 2017 | 7:00pm
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- Destiny 2 is a small, cynical sequel—and better for it By Clayton Purdom September 13, 2017 | 3:26pm
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- Readers reveal their most sadistic Mario Kart tricks By Matt Gerardi September 1, 2017 | 6:59pm
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- We now know what Half-Life 2: Episode 3 might have been, but did it sound any good? By Matt Gerardi August 25, 2017 | 8:34pm
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- How Sonic Mania’s first level sets the stage for a nostalgia-twisting adventure By Matt Gerardi August 23, 2017 | 7:40pm
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- Was Sonic The Hedgehog too fast for his own good? By Matt Gerardi August 18, 2017 | 6:00pm
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- In GoldenEye, screen-looking didn’t break the game—it was the game By Matt Gerardi August 11, 2017 | 8:10pm
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- Surely there’s a better name for games like Gone Home than “walking simulator” By Matt Gerardi August 4, 2017 | 6:00pm
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- What’s your best PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds story? By Matt Gerardi July 28, 2017 | 6:00pm
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- Battlegrounds looks like a shooter, but it’s the scariest horror game in years By William Hughes July 27, 2017 | 5:00am
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- Super Mario Sunshine’s weirdness was right at home on the GameCube By Matt Gerardi July 21, 2017 | 6:00pm
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- Enter to win a $250 GameStop gift card—and revisit some modern classics By GameStop July 14, 2017 | 5:00am
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- Crash Bandicoot is gaming’s ultimate nostalgia act, and that’s okay By Matt Gerardi July 13, 2017 | 5:00am
- Readers head back to Hyrule and find it’s as thrilling as ever By Matt Gerardi July 7, 2017 | 6:00pm
- Enter to win a $250 GameStop gift card—and get lost in some open-world games By GameStop July 7, 2017 | 5:00am
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- Telltale’s Guardians Of The Galaxy takes an emotional trip into Rocket Raccoon’s past By Nick Wanserski July 5, 2017 | 5:00am
- You could win a $250 GameStop gift card—and play some first-person shooters By GameStop July 3, 2017 | 5:00am
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- The A.V. Club’s favorite games of 2017 so far By Sam Barsanti, Clayton Purdom, Alex McLevy, William Hughes, Matt Gerardi June 26, 2017 | 5:00am
- Friday The 13th: The Game wouldn’t be the same without bumbling Jasons By Matt Gerardi June 23, 2017 | 6:30pm
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- What do you want from Metroid Prime 4? By Matt Gerardi June 16, 2017 | 7:00pm
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- The many ways we use video games as therapy By Matt Gerardi June 9, 2017 | 6:15pm
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- The clever trick that defines both Prey and Planescape: Torment By Matt Gerardi June 2, 2017 | 6:00pm
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- Why does Superman keep getting turned into a dictator? By Matt Gerardi May 26, 2017 | 7:30pm
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- Awesome Possum is the smarmy, environmentalist video game hero we need By Matt Gerardi May 19, 2017 | 6:00pm
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- Pt. 2—Prey won’t let you forget the cost of leaving your humanity behind By Matt Gerardi May 18, 2017 | 5:00am
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- Horizon: Zero Dawn’s case for compassion in the post-apocalypse By Matt Gerardi May 12, 2017 | 7:15pm
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- Super Mario 64 had perfectly paced difficulty By Matt Gerardi May 5, 2017 | 6:00pm
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- With Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, the best Mario Kart ever gets even better By Matt Gerardi May 3, 2017 | 5:00am
- Pt. 4—A definitive, inarguable ranking of Persona 5 characters By Clayton Purdom May 2, 2017 | 5:00am
- Remember when video games actually came with stuff in the box? By Matt Gerardi April 28, 2017 | 6:00pm
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- The crushing disappointment of a game that looks better than it plays By Nick Wanserski April 27, 2017 | 5:00am
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