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The ostentatious Gris has got one thing going for it: A damn fine double-jump
By Clayton Purdom December 13, 2018 | 2:52pm
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Supergiant Dips into the Roguelike with Hades
By Dante Douglas December 13, 2018 | 10:30am
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The Clash Royale League World Finals Made Me Believe in Esports
By Annie Black December 12, 2018 | 2:15pm
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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate makes you work for your fan service
By Sam Barsanti December 11, 2018 | 11:15pm
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The PlayStation Classic: Vintage Disappointment
By Garrett Martin December 11, 2018 | 2:30pm
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Games Are the Most Stressful Way to Totally Relax
By Josh Hilgenberg December 11, 2018 | 10:15am
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Extreme Meatpunks Forever is About the Fragility of Trust and Love in the Face of Fascism
By Dante Douglas December 7, 2018 | 9:30am
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Marvel Battle Lines might as well just be an Unbeatable Squirrel Girl game
By Sam Barsanti December 7, 2018 | 6:00am
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Battlefield V’s campaign tries to argue that WWII had very fine people on both sides
By Sam Barsanti December 5, 2018 | 9:45pm
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A.V. Club readers name their favorite games of 2018
By William Hughes December 5, 2018 | 6:45pm
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Fallout 76 is a waste of a perfectly good wasteland
By William Hughes December 4, 2018 | 7:30pm
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The A.V. Club’s favorite games of 2018
By The A.V. Club, William Hughes, Alex McLevy, A.A. Dowd, Julie Muncy, Chris Breault, Matt Gerardi, Sam Barsanti December 3, 2018 | 12:00pm
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I Watched an Entire Movie in a Videogame This Week
By Holly Green December 3, 2018 | 9:00am
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The Small, Weird, Wonderful World of Indie Game Collective Sokpop
By Dante Douglas November 30, 2018 | 12:30pm
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Red Dead Redemption 2's Redface Proves How Far Games Haven't Come
By Dia Lacina November 30, 2018 | 9:00am
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Beat Saber keeps tricking my stupid fat brain into exercising
By William Hughes November 30, 2018 | 6:00am
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Beware the corporate video game canon
By Lewis Gordon November 29, 2018 | 4:00pm
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Battlefield V Doesn't Know What It Wants to Say About War and Fascism
By Dante Douglas November 29, 2018 | 12:30pm
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Tetris Effect Is Beautiful, Powerful, and Afraid to Get Truly Psychedelic
By Garrett Martin November 28, 2018 | 9:00am
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Boy, Fallout 76 Sure Is Fallout 4
By Holly Green November 27, 2018 | 9:00am
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The PlayStation Classic Unboxing Gallery
By Garrett Martin November 27, 2018 | 7:00am
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Listen to an Exclusive Preview of Rozen's Children of Termina Zelda Album
By Garrett Martin November 26, 2018 | 12:20pm
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Does instituting a buddy system defeat the whole point of playing horror games in VR?
By William Hughes November 23, 2018 | 6:00am
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Saying Goodbye to Extrasolar
By Holly Green November 21, 2018 | 12:30pm
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Pokémon Let's Go Makes Grinding in Pokémon Go for Two Years Totally Worth It
By Holly Green November 20, 2018 | 1:00pm
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Red Dead Redemption 2’s ending is worth the wait
By Clayton Purdom November 19, 2018 | 2:00pm
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Take a First Look at Disney's Star Wars Theme Park Rides
By Garrett Martin November 17, 2018 | 1:05pm
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Universal Studios Florida Casts a Holiday Spell at Hogwarts Castle and Beyond
By Garrett Martin November 16, 2018 | 3:30pm
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5 Things to Know Before Playing Pokemon Let's Go
By Holly Green November 16, 2018 | 11:30am
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What sort of monster plays Dark Souls on the train?
By Clayton Purdom November 16, 2018 | 6:00am
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Why Are All the Fishing Mini-Games Trying to Kill Me?
By Holly Green November 15, 2018 | 4:51pm
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The History of Dungeons & Dragons Gets a Glossy Coffee Table Book Appreciation
By Cameron Kunzelman November 14, 2018 | 2:30pm
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Cute Couple Alert: Snoop Dogg and This Spyro the Dragon Drone
By Garrett Martin November 12, 2018 | 1:30pm
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In Chalk Gardens There Are No Wrong Paths--Or Emotions
By Shonte Daniels November 12, 2018 | 11:30am
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Red Dead Redemption 2 Plants and Orchids Guide Plants
By Holly Green November 9, 2018 | 11:00am
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Mark Of The Ninja takes a knife to the neck of stealth-game convention
By Clayton Purdom November 9, 2018 | 6:00am
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Netflix’s Castlevania Just Became the Best Videogame Adaptation of All Time
By Jim Vorel November 8, 2018 | 10:45am
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Red Dead Redemption 2 Is At Its Best When I'm Not Actually Playing It
By Holly Green November 7, 2018 | 12:13pm
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Deltarune Rejects the Naïveté of Undertale
By Dante Douglas November 6, 2018 | 1:00pm
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The Uplifting Agitprop of You Are Jeff Bezos
By Jason Rhode November 5, 2018 | 4:06pm
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A Red Dead Redemption 2 Camp Guide: What to Do There and Why, We Reckon
By Garrett Martin November 2, 2018 | 1:00pm
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There are lots of people—but no character—on the country roads of the Fallout 76 beta
By William Hughes November 2, 2018 | 5:00am
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How to Find All the Legendary Fish in Red Dead Redemption 2
By Holly Green November 1, 2018 | 4:30pm
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Watch All Your Favorite Nintendo Characters Die in This Smash Bros Ultimate Intro
By Garrett Martin November 1, 2018 | 12:30pm
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What Other Games Can Learn From the Racism in Life is Strange 2
By Natalie Flores October 31, 2018 | 1:00pm
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How to Fast Travel in Red Dead Redemption 2
By Garrett Martin October 30, 2018 | 4:30pm
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Return of the Obra Dinn Starkly Renders the Violence and Greed of Colonialism
By Dante Douglas October 30, 2018 | 1:00pm
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How to Find All the Legendary Animals in Red Dead Redemption 2
By Holly Green October 29, 2018 | 4:00pm
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Everything We Know about the Next Dragon Age Game So Far
By Natalie Flores October 26, 2018 | 3:00pm
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Chaos, Thy Name is Red Dead Redemption 2
By Holly Green October 26, 2018 | 12:30pm
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Dead men tell dark tales in the chillingly beautiful Return Of The Obra Dinn
By William Hughes October 26, 2018 | 5:00am
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There’s gold in the hills of Red Dead Redemption 2
By Clayton Purdom October 25, 2018 | 11:01am
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Return of the Obra Dinn Reminds Me Of Math—But In a Good Way
By Holly Green October 24, 2018 | 2:30pm
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Fix the World with Jeff Bezos's Money in the Game You Are Jeff Bezos
By Garrett Martin October 23, 2018 | 1:45pm
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Learning How To Try, With the Help of the Kinect
By Holly Green October 19, 2018 | 2:45pm
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The PlayStation VR turns 2: How much of a jackass am I for buying one?
By William Hughes October 19, 2018 | 5:00am
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Rockstar's 100-Hour Workweek Is a Sign of Abuse, Not Passion
By Dante Douglas October 18, 2018 | 11:00am
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Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Needs a Dedicated "Pet" Button
By Garrett Martin October 17, 2018 | 3:31pm
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Why It's Fair Game to Criticize the Nukes in Fallout 76
By Holly Green October 16, 2018 | 2:30pm
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Playing Mario Party Alone Is Fun
By Shonte Daniels October 15, 2018 | 1:04pm
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WWE's Saudi Arabia Show to Go On Despite Journalist's Disappearance and the Country's Human Rights Violations
By Garrett Martin October 12, 2018 | 10:30am
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Super Mario Party is a very fun way to test the strength of your friendships
By Sam Barsanti October 12, 2018 | 5:00am
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Ring of Elysium Offers a Fresh New Take on the Battle Royale Game
By Dante Douglas October 11, 2018 | 3:57pm
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Dying Light: Bad Blood Has an Advantage Over Other Battle Royale Games
By Holly Green October 10, 2018 | 12:16pm
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Rule of Rose: Revisiting a Twisted Cult Classic
By Holly Green October 9, 2018 | 10:45am
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Why the Heroes of Dandara and Timespinner Represent the Future of the Metroid Genre
By Shonte Daniels October 8, 2018 | 12:00pm
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The Best Halloween Horror Nights Haunted Houses of 2018
By Garrett Martin October 5, 2018 | 5:30pm
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Little Dragons Café Is Not The Game I Hoped It Would Be
By Dante Douglas October 5, 2018 | 11:12am
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Hunting a serial killer through the mail expands the idea of cooperative gaming
By Alex McLevy October 5, 2018 | 5:00am
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Are Videogames Too Long?
By Holly Green October 4, 2018 | 11:30am
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Life Is Strange 2 Humanizes Latinx People in Ways No Other Game Has Done Before
By Natalie Flores October 2, 2018 | 2:00pm
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Odyssey is Assassin's Creed at its best
By Reid McCarter October 1, 2018 | 11:00am
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Lamplight City's Murder Mystery Is a Backdrop for an Exploration of Racial and Sexual Discrimination
By Shonte Daniels September 28, 2018 | 2:30pm
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The just-updated Frostpunk is an anxiety attack with an agenda
By William Hughes September 28, 2018 | 5:00am
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Wandersong and Other Independent Games Capture the Spirit of Children's Storybooks
By Holly Green September 26, 2018 | 3:30pm
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Telltale's Labor Disaster Proves Game Developers Need to Organize
By Dante Douglas September 26, 2018 | 11:30am
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Stop Buying Videogames
By Garrett Martin September 25, 2018 | 4:00pm
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Dreaming of The Sims and a Life That Could Be
By Holly Green September 24, 2018 | 4:35pm
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Call of Duty's Battle Royale Mode Exists Somewhere Between Fortnite and PUBG
By Dante Douglas September 21, 2018 | 12:21pm
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The Bard’s Tale IV makes you fight tooth and nail for its dungeon-crawling goodness
By William Hughes September 21, 2018 | 5:00am
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Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII Might Be the Best Battle Royale Game Yet
By Cameron Kunzelman September 20, 2018 | 12:15pm
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Without This One Game the PlayStation Classic Will Be a Failure
By Garrett Martin September 19, 2018 | 2:30pm
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Why I Can't Wait For Yoshi's Crafted World
By Holly Green September 19, 2018 | 11:32am
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The best, worst, and weirdest games from Castlevania’s 30-year history
By Anthony John Agnello September 18, 2018 | 11:00am
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Overwatch League Is Inspiring--and Also a Great Antidepressant
By Natalie Flores September 14, 2018 | 2:30pm
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Destiny 2’s new Forsaken expansion is weird, confusing, and super fun
By Sam Barsanti September 14, 2018 | 5:00am
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Mothergunship Highlights the Delicate Balance Between Punishment and Reward in Roguelikes
By Dante Douglas September 13, 2018 | 2:30pm
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How Donut County and Animal Crossing See Change as a Good Thing
By Shonte Daniels September 12, 2018 | 10:00am
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For one great level, Shadow Of The Tomb Raider makes Lara Croft feel like a real person
By Sam Barsanti September 11, 2018 | 4:15pm
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The US and Canada Dominated the Overwatch World Cup Los Angeles Group Stage
By Natalie Flores September 10, 2018 | 3:30pm
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Magic: The Gathering—Guilds of Ravnica Preview Cards
By Cameron Kunzelman September 10, 2018 | 11:00am
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War hasn't changed much in the Battlefield V beta
By Sam Barsanti September 7, 2018 | 5:00am
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Spider-Man’s J. Jonah Jameson finds his true calling as a blustering right-wing podcaster
By William Hughes September 6, 2018 | 3:00pm
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The Best Game I Played At PAX Turned Me Into a Bee
By Holly Green September 6, 2018 | 1:34pm
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8 Crucial Dragon Quest XI Tips
By Andy Moore September 5, 2018 | 4:30pm
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Red Dead, Tomb Raider, and Smash Bros.: Here are the games to play this fall
By The A.V. Club, Caitlin PenzeyMoog, William Hughes, Sam Barsanti, A.A. Dowd September 5, 2018 | 3:00pm
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Videogames and Eating Disorders: Reward Through Repetition
By Cole Henry August 31, 2018 | 2:00pm
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Unavowed Points and Clicks Its Way to Comfort and Realistic Friendships
By Dante Douglas August 31, 2018 | 10:00am
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Donut County looks good enough to eat
By Clayton Purdom August 31, 2018 | 5:00am
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Even in Death Dead Cells Lets You Build to a Greater Victory
By Dante Douglas August 30, 2018 | 3:00pm
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Call of Duty's Multiplayer Feels More Nuanced in the Black Ops IIII Beta
By Cameron Kunzelman August 28, 2018 | 1:00pm
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Fire Pro Wrestling World Hits the PS4 with the Japanese Wrestling Visual Novel of Your Dreams
By Garrett Martin August 24, 2018 | 3:00pm
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Dead Cells wants your love—and your cells
By Clayton Purdom August 24, 2018 | 5:00am
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N64 and PS1 Demakes Are The New Pixel Art Wave
By Holly Green August 23, 2018 | 3:30pm
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Guacamelee! 2 flicks a candy-colored middle finger to meme haters and modern games
By William Hughes August 23, 2018 | 11:00am
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Metal Gear Solid’s greatest death scene is your own
By Clayton Purdom August 22, 2018 | 11:00am
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The Relaxing No Man's Sky Only Forces You into Menial Labor if You Let It
By Dante Douglas August 21, 2018 | 12:30pm
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We Happy Few Is as Confused as Its Drug-Addled Characters
By Cameron Kunzelman August 17, 2018 | 11:30am
