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Bright Memory: Infinite
should be the next cult hit indie game
By Sam Barsanti
July 29, 2022 | 10:00am
Escape Academy
is another very good digital substitute for escape room nerds
By William Hughes
July 22, 2022 | 11:00am
Last Call BBS
, its creators' final game,
is a love letter to the process
By William Hughes
July 15, 2022 | 10:00am
The shiny new PlayStation Plus is an aging buffet of leftovers
By William Hughes
July 8, 2022 | 12:00pm
Let's get ready for
Love And Thunder
with Mighty Thor in
Marvel’s Avengers
By Sam Barsanti
July 1, 2022 | 10:00am
Neon White
will make you hate your friends, in the best ways
By William Hughes
June 24, 2022 | 10:00am
TMNT: Shredder's Revenge
is a well-made dose of pure, uncut Saturday morning nostalgia
By William Hughes
June 17, 2022 | 8:00am
Rogue Legacy 2
is an across-the-board improvement of a gaming classic
By William Hughes
June 10, 2022 | 10:00am
Ranking the 10 best trailers from today's leaky, mostly craptacular Summer Game Fest
By William Hughes
June 9, 2022 | 10:00pm
Sniper Elite 5
can't help missing the point
By Sam Barsanti
June 3, 2022 | 9:00am
Tech modder figures he might as well rig up a Nintendo Power Glove to his Switch and play
Mario Kart
By Reid McCarter
June 1, 2022 | 6:15pm
Ah, finally, there's a
Smash Bros.
clone where Arya Stark can rip off Steven Universe's face
By William Hughes
May 27, 2022 | 11:00am
The
Evil Dead
game perfectly captures the joys of torturing Bruce Campbell, Sam Raimi-style
By William Hughes
May 20, 2022 | 9:00am
Salt And Sacrifice
manages to overcome a lousy first impression
By William Hughes
May 13, 2022 | 9:00am
Rune-powered musician summons up 15 covers of
Elden Ring
's theme song
By Reid McCarter
May 12, 2022 | 5:30pm
Gold Medal Games: Picking the best sports games in Nintendo's multi-decade history
By William Hughes, Alison Foreman, Sam Barsanti
May 11, 2022 | 7:00am
Screw it, let's just play
Vampire Survivor
s
By William Hughes
May 6, 2022 | 9:00am
Someone's modified a Fisher-Price game controller for babies so it can be used to play
Elden Ring
By Reid McCarter
May 2, 2022 | 6:00pm
The best
Jeopardy!
game, period, is a free archive maintained by dedicated nerds
By William Hughes
April 29, 2022 | 5:00am
Is
Lego
’s
Skywalker Saga
the best possible version of J.J. Abrams’
Star Wars
movies?
By William Hughes
April 22, 2022 | 5:00am
Returnal
's new survival mode is a worthy, weighty addition to 2021's best game
By William Hughes
April 15, 2022 | 11:00am
Two decades on, a revisit of
Chrono Cross
reveals a game that's melancholy, middle-aged—and cruel
By William Hughes
April 12, 2022 | 11:00am
Ash Williams brings his boomstick to
Resident Evil Village
for a pretty groovy video edit
By Reid McCarter
April 8, 2022 | 5:01pm
Moss: Book II
is a quiet, beautiful testament to the more subtle powers of VR
By William Hughes
April 8, 2022 | 5:00am
How is Sony supposed to sell us PS3 nostalgia when it’s been cannibalizing the system for years?
By William Hughes
April 1, 2022 | 5:00am
The gorgeous
Tunic
is powered by one hell of a great game idea
By William Hughes
March 25, 2022 | 5:00am
Eight years later, living a life of crime in
Grand Theft Auto Online
sure looks a lot different
By Sam Barsanti
March 22, 2022 | 5:00am
Stranger Of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origins
’ meathead hero is even dumber than its title
By William Hughes
March 18, 2022 | 5:00am
Perfect Tides
is as devastating and powerful as a perfectly crafted away message
By William Hughes
March 11, 2022 | 6:00am
Guy somehow manages to turn novelty Hot Wheels computer into cutting-edge gaming PC
By Reid McCarter
March 10, 2022 | 3:30pm
100 hours in,
Elden Ring
is a beautiful, ugly masterpiece
By William Hughes
March 9, 2022 | 6:00am
Mediocre shooter
Crossfire X
proves that Remedy is a top-tier game developer
By Sam Barsanti
March 4, 2022 | 6:00am
5 (mostly) spoiler-free tips to help start you on your quest for the
Elden Ring
By William Hughes
February 25, 2022 | 6:00am
5 things the
Uncharted
games deliver that the film series needs to add
By William Hughes, Alex McLevy
February 18, 2022 | 6:00am
Here are 5 things we wish we’d known before starting
Horizon Forbidden West
By William Hughes
February 18, 2022 | 6:00am
What does it take for a total newcomer to become
The King Of Fighters
?
By Sam Barsanti
February 11, 2022 | 4:00pm
Retro romance: 11 classic video game couples and whether they’re in it for love or high scores
By The A.V. Club
February 6, 2022 | 6:00am
Build-A-Bear launches "After Dark" ad campaign for beary horny grown-ups
By William Hughes
February 5, 2022 | 1:44am
Pokémon Legends: Arceus
is great—when it shuts up and lets you catch some damn Pokémon
By William Hughes
February 4, 2022 | 6:00am
Dying Light 2
might not take 500 hours to finish, but it sure feels like it
By Sam Barsanti
February 2, 2022 | 3:00pm
Escape Simulator
is a near-perfect substitute for the real thing
By William Hughes
January 28, 2022 | 6:00am
Actual rats, taking a cue from rat-tailed '90s kids, are now playing
Doom
By Reid McCarter
January 25, 2022 | 10:15pm
Video editor throws us a frickin' bone, creates another
Austin Powers/Mass Effect
mash-up
By Reid McCarter
January 25, 2022 | 7:30pm
Idle games keep getting better, as our pandemic brains get worse
By William Hughes
January 21, 2022 | 6:00am
Dying Light 2
re-raises the “Are video games too damn long?” question
By William Hughes
January 14, 2022 | 6:00am
Wordle
isn't actually about the words
By William Hughes
January 7, 2022 | 6:00am
Final Fantasy VII
villain Sephiroth has, at last, been modified to look like Ronald McDonald
By Reid McCarter
January 5, 2022 | 6:00pm
This big, dumb year in big, dumb shooter games
By Sam Barsanti
December 24, 2021 | 6:00am
Let’s kill Santa!
By William Hughes
December 17, 2021 | 6:00pm
Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator
wants to piss you off
By William Hughes
December 17, 2021 | 6:00am
Just a guy reloading various household objects as if they're first-person shooter weapons
By Reid McCarter
December 15, 2021 | 8:00pm
What game are you desperate to beat before the end of 2021?
By William Hughes
December 10, 2021 | 6:01am
The gorgeous
Solar Ash
plays a bit like
Tony Hawk’s Pro Colossus Killer
By William Hughes
December 3, 2021 | 6:00am
2001 was the year of the PlayStation 2
By William Hughes, Sam Barsanti
November 29, 2021 | 6:00am
The 10 best gifts to buy video game fans this holiday
By William Hughes
November 26, 2021 | 12:00pm
The
Elden Ring
network test was wondrous and worrying in equal ways
By William Hughes
November 26, 2021 | 6:00am
Radiohead's digital
Kid A Mnesia Exhibition
is no game—it's an experience
By Alex McLevy
November 19, 2021 | 6:00am
The
Call Of Duty
machine is grinding the series into dust
By Sam Barsanti
November 12, 2021 | 6:00am
The
Skyrim
decade: How Bethesda’s dragon-slaying opus transformed gaming
By William Hughes
November 11, 2021 | 6:00am
Now you can build a digital cairn free from cultural appropriation and/or hauntings
By Andrew Paul
November 9, 2021 | 7:10pm
Darkest Dungeon II
sends you on the
Oregon Trail
to hell
By William Hughes
November 5, 2021 | 5:00am
House Of Ashes
treats post-9/11 Iraq like just another B-movie haunted house
By William Hughes, Alex McLevy
October 29, 2021 | 5:00am
Some of the best horror games of 2021 lurk far off the beaten path
By Alexander Chatziioannou
October 28, 2021 | 11:00am
Back 4 Blood
is a nostalgic reminder of how fun it is to leave your friends for dead
By William Hughes
October 22, 2021 | 5:00am
With
Metroid Dread
, Nintendo finally gets the action hero it deserves
By Sam Barsanti
October 15, 2021 | 5:00am
New advertisement suggests drinking Coke will destroy video games, usher in world peace
By Reid McCarter
October 8, 2021 | 5:00pm
Dear video games: Knock it off with the dog murder, huh?
By William Hughes
October 8, 2021 | 5:00am
20 years later, what does a modern
Halo
game even look like?
By Sam Barsanti
October 1, 2021 | 11:00am
ActRaiser Renaissance
remasters all the charm out of an SNES classic
By William Hughes
October 1, 2021 | 5:00am
Ten years later, few games have ever matched
Dark Souls’
delicious obscurity
By William Hughes
September 24, 2021 | 5:00am
Battle Cyber-Margaret Thatcher through the 10th circle of hell in new
Doom
mod
By Reid McCarter
September 23, 2021 | 2:45pm
Lost Judgment
is a faithful recreation of living a completely absurd life
By Sam Barsanti
September 17, 2021 | 5:00am
Dutch thieves execute daring
Pokémon
card heist
By William Hughes
September 16, 2021 | 10:55pm
Here, for your consideration, is a Nintendo 64 that plays metal music and breathes fire
By Reid McCarter
September 13, 2021 | 6:30pm
Life Is Strange: True Colors
blends a playable indie movie with a stunning treatise on empathy
By William Hughes
September 10, 2021 | 5:00am
Psychonauts 2
cooks up a beautiful spin on its brilliant, busted, brain-blasting mechanics
By William Hughes
September 3, 2021 | 5:00am
Grim, star-studded time loop game
Twelve Minutes
doesn’t bear repeating
By William Hughes
August 27, 2021 | 5:00am
Searching for some kind of meditative transcendence in
Lawn Mowing Simulator
By Sam Barsanti
August 20, 2021 | 5:00am
Former
Skyrim
mod
The Forgotten City
demands to be remembered
By William Hughes
August 13, 2021 | 5:00am
It’s so nice to play a MOBA game where no one tells you to go have sex with your mom
By William Hughes
August 6, 2021 | 5:00am
Breath Of The Wild
"street view" lets you explore Zelda maps without worrying about Lynels
By Matt Schimkowitz
August 4, 2021 | 12:19am
The Great Ace Attorney
finally offers a version of Sherlock Holmes who isn’t a massive pain in the ass
By William Hughes
July 30, 2021 | 5:00am
So, the
Witcher Pokémon Go
game is pretty weird
By William Hughes
July 23, 2021 | 5:00am
You may now buy an ugly, slow, Mario-themed TAG Heuer smartwatch for $2,150
By Reid McCarter
July 22, 2021 | 8:45pm
Meet Alex Moukala, the bassist on a heroic quest to make
Final Fantasy
funky
By Reid McCarter
July 19, 2021 | 5:30pm
Let's check in on the people speedrunning
Super Mario
while blindfolded
By Reid McCarter
July 16, 2021 | 11:11pm
Have you heard the good news about
PowerWash Simulator
?
By William Hughes
July 16, 2021 | 5:00am
Someone spent $1.56M on a copy of
Super Mario 64
instead of just, like, downloading it
By Reid McCarter
July 12, 2021 | 8:30pm
Here are all the games we’re kicking ourselves for leaving off our Best Of 2021 so far list
By William Hughes
July 9, 2021 | 5:00am
Nintendo has finally fixed golf, a sport that has been terrible for centuries
By Sam Barsanti
July 2, 2021 | 5:00am
Pokémon craze now looks tame thanks to $13M
Yu-Gi-Oh!
card auction linked to embezzlement case
By Reid McCarter
June 25, 2021 | 7:00pm
Scarlet Nexus
is damn good fun—once it gets up to speed
By William Hughes
June 25, 2021 | 5:00am
Meet Food4Dogs, an elderly lady from New Zealand who loves the PlayStation Vita and unboxing video games
By Reid McCarter
June 23, 2021 | 7:02pm
Oh god, what if I don’t like
Breath Of The Wild 2
, either?
By William Hughes
June 18, 2021 | 5:00am
In
Strangeland
, hell might just be in your head
By William Hughes
June 11, 2021 | 5:00am
Take us down to
Knockout City
, where the dodgeballs fly and—oh god, the dodgeballs!
By William Hughes
June 4, 2021 | 5:00am
Help, I’m still stacking rocks 160 hours into
Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla
By Liz Arcury
May 28, 2021 | 5:00am
The A.V. Club
is fighting our way through
Biomutant
on Twitch
By William Hughes
May 26, 2021 | 3:00pm
Cool dad ruins eSport son's bid at
Counter-Strike
tournament glory by wandering shirtless onto stream
By Reid McCarter
May 25, 2021 | 7:00pm
Not
quite
the very best: 13
Pokémon
imitators and rip-offs that didn’t make the cut
By William Hughes, Sam Barsanti
May 24, 2021 | 5:00am
Honk honk,
SnowRunner
and its big, slippery trucks are calling
By Sam Barsanti
May 21, 2021 | 5:00am
Get to know King Pokémon, the obsessive collector with more than $10 million in cartoon animal cards
By Reid McCarter
May 19, 2021 | 1:00pm
With its final ending,
The Binding Of Isaac
crawls out of the poop at last
By William Hughes
May 17, 2021 | 3:00pm
What do Steve Jobs, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Chuck E. Cheese have in common? This early Atari hit
By Mike Vago
May 16, 2021 | 5:00am
Resident Evil Village
’s scariest section isn’t afraid to baby its players
By William Hughes
May 14, 2021 | 5:00am
Well, it's not like adding Frasier to
Cyberpunk 2077
would make it any
worse
By Andrew Paul
May 13, 2021 | 7:59pm
Children no longer allowed to buy Pokémon cards at Target thanks to Wisconsin brawl
By Reid McCarter
May 13, 2021 | 4:00pm
The
A.V. Club
is playing
Resident Evil Village
today on Twitch
By William Hughes
May 12, 2021 | 3:00pm
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