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Charting Our Emotional Landscapes through Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice’s Hanbei
By Dia Lacina May 7, 2019 | 3:25pm
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When you play the games of the Game Of Thrones, do they win, or do they die?
By William Hughes May 7, 2019 | 1:00pm
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Chew Man Fu Injects Chaos into the Maze Puzzle
By Garrett Martin May 6, 2019 | 4:00pm
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Just Shapes & Beats to Debut on PS4 With New Hardcore Mode
By Holly Green May 6, 2019 | 3:00pm
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Exactly What Constitutes A Microtransaction, Anyway?
By Holly Green May 3, 2019 | 1:00pm
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Katana Zero is a good game about swords, and a great game about being a rude, interrupting prick
By William Hughes May 3, 2019 | 5:00am
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We played Borderlands 3, and it’s more of everything—including “the same”
By William Hughes May 2, 2019 | 6:00pm
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Kicking Tricky Kick Is the Trickiest Thing About It
By Garrett Martin May 1, 2019 | 5:00pm
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Forget Easy Mode: This Is Mortal Kombat 11's Best Accessibility Feature
By Holly Green April 30, 2019 | 11:30am
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Rediscovering the Joy of Photo Albums with Super Mario Odyssey and the Nintendo Switch
By Dia Lacina April 29, 2019 | 1:00pm
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Mortal Kombat 11 Is a Master of the Perspective Switch
By Holly Green April 26, 2019 | 11:30am
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Days Gone is the Red Dead Redemption 2 of biker zombie games, for better or worse
By Sam Barsanti April 26, 2019 | 5:00am
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I'm Pretty Sure Days Gone Hates Me More Than I Hate It
By Garrett Martin April 25, 2019 | 1:30pm
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Mortal Kombat 11 Has the Best Fighting Game Tutorial Ever
By Garrett Martin April 23, 2019 | 3:00pm
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Yup, Cuphead Is Better On the Switch. Here's Why.
By Holly Green April 19, 2019 | 12:18pm
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Do we still have an appetite for Tropico 6’s brand of dictator-flavored fun?
By William Hughes April 19, 2019 | 5:00am
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Where to Find All the Prayer Beads in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
By Garrett Martin April 18, 2019 | 4:30pm
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Listen to an Exclusive Preview of Fallout and Dragon Age Composer Inon Zur's Upcoming Album
By Garrett Martin April 18, 2019 | 3:15pm
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The Freelancer Career Path in The Sims 4 Is So Authentic I'm Gonna Cry
By Holly Green April 17, 2019 | 1:00pm
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Falcon Age Disrupts Sci-fi Tropes in Its Critique of Colonialism and Capitalism
By Dante Douglas April 16, 2019 | 12:00pm
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In Pursuit of the Shot in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
By Dia Lacina April 12, 2019 | 3:00pm
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Good news, gumshoes: We're living through a golden age of great detective games
By William Hughes April 12, 2019 | 5:00am
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3 table-top games you should play right now, courtesy of Rich Sommer and Casey Diedrick
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin April 11, 2019 | 10:00pm
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My Darling Clementine: The End of Telltale and The Walking Dead
By Shonte Daniels April 10, 2019 | 11:42am
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Yoshi's Crafted World Is the Cute, Calming Relief I Need After Sekiro
By Garrett Martin April 9, 2019 | 3:45pm
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Consume Me and the Line Between Thought-Provoking and Triggering
By Holly Green April 9, 2019 | 11:30am
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The Fundamental Thing The Division 2 Gets Wrong about Loot Shooters
By Holly Green April 5, 2019 | 12:00pm
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Risk Of Rain 2’s real monster is capitalism, not the ravenous alien horde
By William Hughes April 5, 2019 | 5:00am
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This Horror Game Is an Accurate and ASMR-Friendly Look at Sleep Paralysis
By Holly Green April 3, 2019 | 2:30pm
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The Division 2 Doesn’t Think It’s Pushing An Agenda, But It Is
By Dia Lacina March 29, 2019 | 11:15am
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The Division 2 is a great—wait, no, I just started playing Sekiro again
By William Hughes March 29, 2019 | 5:00am
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Apex Legends Would Be Better on Console, If It Wasn't for the Toxic Playerbase
By Cameron Kunzelman March 28, 2019 | 11:15am
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Sekiro’s Combat Stays Sharp Despite the Repetition
By Garrett Martin March 26, 2019 | 3:15pm
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I Played Every Game At Train Jam 2019
By Holly Green March 26, 2019 | 1:15pm
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Baba Is You breaks your brain in a million adorable ways
By William Hughes March 22, 2019 | 5:00am
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Sekiro is great; I'm the one who sucks
By William Hughes March 21, 2019 | 3:15pm
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Death Is More Than Just Death in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
By Garrett Martin March 21, 2019 | 3:00pm
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The Stillness of the Wind Is My Cat's Favorite Game
By Holly Green March 19, 2019 | 11:08am
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Composer Woody Jackson on crafting the sound for Red Dead Redemption 2
By Baraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin March 18, 2019 | 6:00pm
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Devil May Cry 5’s new playable character is the corniest dude in a series full of corny dudes
By Sam Barsanti March 15, 2019 | 5:00am
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This Game Makes Me Wish I Was a Bird
By Holly Green March 12, 2019 | 1:00pm
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What to Expect from Amazon Prime's Costume Quest TV Show
By Holly Green March 8, 2019 | 11:15am
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Ape Out raises questions about craft and the containment of large, very angry apes
By William Hughes March 8, 2019 | 6:00am
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An Unreleased NES Game from 1989 Featuring WCW Wrestlers Has Been Discovered
By Garrett Martin March 6, 2019 | 12:11pm
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Matthew Lillard Explains Beadle & Grimm's $500 Dungeons & Dragons Adventure
By Cameron Kunzelman March 4, 2019 | 11:30am
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Confessions of an idle gamer
By William Hughes March 1, 2019 | 6:00am
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Monster Hunter World Can’t Envision That Maybe Hunters are the Baddies
By Dia Lacina February 28, 2019 | 4:05pm
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Crackdown 3 is too much of everything, but that's why it's fun
By Alex McLevy February 28, 2019 | 4:00pm
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The Textorcist Combines Mavis Beacon with The Exorcist
By Holly Green February 26, 2019 | 10:18am
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A few hours in, Anthem feels like a very lonely multiplayer game
By Sam Barsanti February 22, 2019 | 9:30pm
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Civilization VI: Gathering Storm Is Perfect if You're a Drama Queen (Like Me)
By Holly Green February 22, 2019 | 10:12am
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Tetris 99 is a singular creation of evil, time-devouring genius
By William Hughes February 22, 2019 | 6:00am
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Art Sqool Lets You Get Creative Without Having to Pay for Art School
By Shonte Daniels February 21, 2019 | 9:30am
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Apex Legends Shows Overwatch How Easy It Is to Be Diverse
By Dante Douglas February 20, 2019 | 9:35am
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Work Sucks, But This Office Management 101 Demo Doesn't
By Holly Green February 18, 2019 | 12:30pm
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The Out-of-this World Sunless Skies Offers a New Adventure Every Time You Play It
By Dante Douglas February 15, 2019 | 1:30pm
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How is BioWare’s Anthem beta so terrible at telling stories?
By William Hughes February 15, 2019 | 6:00am
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Metro Exodus is a grim sojourn into a hateful natural world that wants to kill you
By William Hughes February 14, 2019 | 5:00pm
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Neill Blomkamp Discusses His Live-Action Anthem Short
By Garrett Martin February 12, 2019 | 3:00pm
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Chill Out to this Exclusive Preview of a Final Fantasy and Squaresoft Tribute Album
By Garrett Martin February 11, 2019 | 3:00pm
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Detention Portrays the Tragedy of Dissent, Revenge and Unintended Consequences
By Holly Green February 11, 2019 | 11:00am
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Apex Legends is great, but will its first kill be Titanfall 3?
By Sam Barsanti February 8, 2019 | 6:00am
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Stop Comparing Kingdom Hearts to Metal Gear Solid
By Cameron Kunzelman February 7, 2019 | 11:00am
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Nostalgia is deadlier than any zombie in the Resident Evil 2 remake
By A.A. Dowd February 5, 2019 | 9:55pm
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Finding Redemption As a Mango Farmer in Van Der Linde Farms
By Holly Green February 4, 2019 | 9:15am
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Surviving Your First Convention: 5 Do’s and 5 Don’ts from a First Time Con Attendee
By Annie Black February 1, 2019 | 9:15am
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How can you be an expert at a game when you’ve only put a measly 700 hours in?
By William Hughes February 1, 2019 | 6:00am
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Kingdom Hearts III is a cheerful celebration of Disney’s inescapable cultural monopoly
By Reid McCarter January 31, 2019 | 9:00pm
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Going Hollow: The Importance of Playing Online in Souls Games
By Dia Lacina January 31, 2019 | 2:30pm
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The Blackout Club Turns a Childhood Fear of the Dark into a Creepy Stealth Game
By Holly Green January 31, 2019 | 11:45am
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The Upcoming RPG She Dreams Elsewhere Does So Much Right
By Dante Douglas January 30, 2019 | 11:30am
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Well, That Fallout 76 Griefing Problem Sure Worked Itself Out
By Holly Green January 28, 2019 | 2:30pm
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Everything You Need to Know Before Playing Kingdom Hearts III (Part Three)
By Natalie Flores January 28, 2019 | 1:30pm
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Just Cause 4 Aerial Navigation Is My Kind of Chaos
By Holly Green January 25, 2019 | 11:00am
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The Switch has quietly become the weirdest, best little sports console around
By William Hughes January 25, 2019 | 6:00am
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Anthem Marks New Territory for Bioware, And Even After Playing It We Aren't Entirely Sure What to Expect
By Dante Douglas January 24, 2019 | 12:30pm
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Everything You Need to Know Before Playing Kingdom Hearts III (Part Two)
By Natalie Flores January 23, 2019 | 12:00pm
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Turns Out You Can Definitely Send Nudes in Pokémon GO
By Holly Green January 22, 2019 | 12:00pm
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Everything You Need to Know Before Playing Kingdom Hearts III (Part One)
By Natalie Flores January 18, 2019 | 9:00am
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Vane is gorgeous, but turning into a bird should be way more fun than this
By Alex McLevy January 18, 2019 | 6:00am
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Empathy is the Defining Core of Life is Strange: An Interview with Christian Divine
By Natalie Flores January 17, 2019 | 12:00pm
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Metro Reveals a Whole Wide World in Metro Exodus
By Garrett Martin January 16, 2019 | 1:30pm
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One Step From Eden: Somewhere Between a Roguelike, a Deckbuilder and a Bullet Hell Shooter
By Dante Douglas January 15, 2019 | 11:00am
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For a Game Built on History, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Does a Bad Job of Teaching It
By Garrett Martin January 14, 2019 | 12:30pm
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2018 Honorable Mentions: Desert Child
By Shonte Daniels January 14, 2019 | 10:30am
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Giant robots, zombies, and Winnie The Pooh: Here are our most anticipated games of the winter
By The A.V. Club, William Hughes, Sam Barsanti January 11, 2019 | 3:00pm
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Pamali Offers a Refreshing International Spin on Point and Click Horror
By Holly Green January 11, 2019 | 11:30am
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Hey, Hollow Knight fans: There’s another brilliant, adorable Metroidvania out on the Switch
By William Hughes January 11, 2019 | 6:00am
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Overwatch’s Latest Gay Hero Is Great, But Let’s Not Praise Blizzard Just Yet
By Dia Lacina January 9, 2019 | 9:45am
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Magic: The Gathering—Ravnica Allegiance Preview Cards
By Cameron Kunzelman January 7, 2019 | 10:00am
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2018 Honorable Mentions: Unforeseen Incidents
By Holly Green January 4, 2019 | 10:45am
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The highlight of our holiday board game haul
By William Hughes January 4, 2019 | 6:00am
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2018 Honorable Mentions: Orwell: Ignorance Is Strength
By Cameron Kunzelman January 3, 2019 | 12:30pm
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2018 Honorable Mentions: Dusk
By Dante Douglas January 2, 2019 | 12:00pm
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2018 Honorable Mentions: Heaven Will Be Mine
By Dia Lacina December 31, 2018 | 1:00pm
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Nuka Dark Rum Is Another Bethesda Merchandise Disaster
By Holly Green December 28, 2018 | 2:30pm
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Below Shows How Dark Souls Is Becoming Its Own Genre
By Dante Douglas December 27, 2018 | 11:30am
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In Gris, Distance Brings You Closer
By Garrett Martin December 26, 2018 | 5:00pm
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Is Super Smash Bros. All Tapped Out?
By Holly Green December 24, 2018 | 12:30pm
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Randomizers Give Classic Games New Life
By Shonte Daniels December 21, 2018 | 10:45am
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Below wants you to know exactly how tiny and insignificant you really are
By William Hughes December 21, 2018 | 6:00am
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Fallout 76 Microtransactions Will Kill What I Loved About Fallout
By Holly Green December 20, 2018 | 9:00am
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Disneyland's Newest Roller Coaster: Riding the Incredicoaster
By Garrett Martin December 19, 2018 | 5:00pm
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Subliminal Murder: Why Hitman 2 Should Arm Agent 47 with a Camera
By Dia Lacina December 19, 2018 | 9:00am
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In Red Dead Redemption 2 You Don't Know What You Got till It's Gone
By Holly Green December 18, 2018 | 12:00pm
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8 Tips to Get You Started in Artifact
By Andy Moore December 17, 2018 | 11:00am
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Red Dead Redemption 2: Open World Games Are Still Incompatible With Linear Narrative
By Holly Green December 14, 2018 | 1:30pm
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Mail-order horror packages deliver dark magic to your doorstep (and date night)
By William Hughes December 14, 2018 | 6:00am