• Type Help is a perfect example of why mystery games are so damn good right now By William Hughes July 11, 2025 | 7:00am
• The best games of 2025 (so far) By A.V. Club Staff June 27, 2025 | 12:00pm
• When did video games become too lazy to actually teach you how to play them? By William Hughes July 4, 2025 | 12:00pm
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• This quiet, sad detective game is an antidote for gaming excess By William Hughes March 7, 2025 | 11:00am
• Good news, gumshoes: We're living through a golden age of great detective games By William Hughes April 12, 2019 | 5:00am
• Game Theory: Every internet detective should be playing The Roottrees Are Dead By William Hughes December 1, 2023 | 4:00pm
• The trailer for Resident Evil 9 has some nice, spooky X-Files vibes By William Hughes June 6, 2025 | 8:08pm
• Undertale dares players to make a mistake they can never take back By William Hughes December 9, 2015 | 2:00pm
• Her Story doesn’t guarantee you’ll solve its mysteries, nor should it By Julie Muncy July 14, 2015 | 5:00am
• Nioh 3's demo is a junk food addict's take on Elden Ring By William Hughes June 20, 2025 | 10:00am
• One of our favorite games of 2023 just got a gorgeous new version By William Hughes January 17, 2025 | 10:00am
• 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
• We've finally got the Switch 2—now what? By William Hughes June 6, 2025 | 8:00am
• Blue Prince is the wrong kind of frustrating By William Hughes April 11, 2025 | 8:00am
• Monster Train 2 is an addictive breaker of brains By William Hughes May 30, 2025 | 11:00am
• Dead men tell dark tales in the chillingly beautiful Return Of The Obra Dinn By William Hughes October 26, 2018 | 5:00am
• Mario + Rabbids Sparks Of Hope doesn’t have enough chocolate or peanut butter By Sam Barsanti October 21, 2022 | 12:00pm
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has Charlie Cox and it knows how to use him By William Hughes May 16, 2025 | 11:00am
• Lies Of P: Overture is the right kind of video game fanservice By William Hughes June 13, 2025 | 11:00am
• Alone In The Dark review: David Harbour is the worst part of this horror game remake By William Hughes March 19, 2024 | 6:06pm
• Riddick Rises: 2004 was the year movie tie-in video games stopped sucking By William Hughes August 14, 2024 | 9:00am
• 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
• Satisfactory kicks you in a hole, murders you, and makes you like it By William Hughes October 18, 2024 | 7:00am
• Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a garbage-collection sim that wishes it was an RPG By William Hughes November 8, 2024 | 8:00am
• Mario & Luigi: Brothership shows why the Switch is a good system, not a great handheld By William Hughes November 15, 2024 | 8:00am
• WBD banishes the video game studios, Wonder Woman game to Phantom Zone By Matt Schimkowitz February 25, 2025 | 8:30pm
• The Hundred Line is shameless game design in the best way By William Hughes May 9, 2025 | 1:00pm
• Three Ubisoft execs found guilty of enabling a culture of sexual harassment in landmark #MeToo trial By Emma Keates July 2, 2025 | 4:27pm
• The Case Of The Golden Idol is gorgeous, gross, and one of the best detective games in years By William Hughes October 14, 2022 | 12:00pm
• Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance review: A slick, smart way to grind away the hours of your life By William Hughes June 13, 2024 | 5:52pm
• Game Theory: Congratulations, Frostpunk 2 is exactly as miserable as it wants to be By William Hughes September 27, 2024 | 10:00am
• Eternal Strands: If you're going to steal, steal from the best By William Hughes February 14, 2025 | 9:00am
• We played with the Switch 2, and it's Nintendo's least-weird console ever By William Hughes April 3, 2025 | 9:00am
• EA cancels Black Panther game and closes studio making it By William Hughes May 28, 2025 | 6:29pm
• Pt. 1—Resident Evil 7 is the confident, crazed revival this series has been dying for By Matt Gerardi January 23, 2017 | 7:21pm
• Games don’t get much more American than sloshball, a.k.a. kickball with beer By Alex McLevy, William Hughes, Matt Gerardi June 30, 2017 | 5:00am
• Life sucks and then you fight a supervillain in the new Arkham-indebted Spider-Man game By A.A. Dowd September 4, 2018 | 2:00pm
• The 15 best games of 2022 By Alexander Chatziioannou, Sam Barsanti, Grace Benfell, Jen Lennon, Reid McCarter, William Hughes December 19, 2022 | 1:00pm
• Game Theory: Dragon's Dogma 2 pulls one of the meanest video game tricks we've ever seen By William Hughes March 29, 2024 | 12:00pm
• Lorelei And The Laser Eyes review: One of the best new puzzle games in years By William Hughes May 15, 2024 | 4:00pm
• The best video games of 2024 (so far) By William Hughes June 4, 2024 | 12:00pm
• Shadow Of The Erdtree review: 50 more hours of one of the decade's biggest, best, and weirdest games By William Hughes June 18, 2024 | 2:00pm
• Game Theory: Y'all are playing the Box Office Game, right? By William Hughes August 2, 2024 | 10:00am
• Game Theory: Doom + Doom II is a beautiful museum of blood and guts By William Hughes August 16, 2024 | 10:00am
• 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
• The Royal Shakespeare Company is getting into video games, obviously By William Hughes January 25, 2025 | 4:21pm
• Two hours previewing Lies Of P: Overture add new life to an unsung gem By William Hughes May 21, 2025 | 11:00am
• James Bond is finally coming back (in video game form) By William Hughes June 4, 2025 | 8:14pm
• Legend Of Zelda movie delayed "to make the film as good as it can be" By Emma Keates June 9, 2025 | 1:57pm
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• House M.D. By David Wolinsky May 17, 2010 | 5:00am
• The return of FMV reflects gaming’s growing interest in humanity By William Hughes February 4, 2016 | 3:00pm
• Without its deleted finale, Metal Gear Solid V has no ending at all By Patrick Lee October 19, 2016 | 5:00am
• The best way to beat Shadow Of War’s final act is not to play it By Matt Gerardi October 19, 2017 | 6:00pm
• Kentucky Route Zero on the Switch is a beautiful, sometimes infuriating dream By William Hughes January 31, 2020 | 6:00am
• From Stranger Things to Twitch: Streaming star Grace Van Dien answers our questions By William Hughes June 2, 2023 | 3:00pm
• Final Fantasy XVI's pivot to action is surprisingly boring By William Hughes July 14, 2023 | 4:00pm
• Read This: The Activision Blizzard downturn is a familiar tale of late capitalism By Mary Kate Carr September 25, 2024 | 11:10am
• 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
• Adventure game Old Skies is a must-play for time travel fans By William Hughes April 23, 2025 | 12:00pm
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• Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney By Chris Dahlen March 17, 2008 | 3:50pm
• AVC at GDC '10: An interview with Alpha Protocol creator Chris Avellone By Chris Dahlen March 11, 2010 | 7:00pm
• Professor Layton And The Unwound Future By Russ Fischer September 20, 2010 | 5:00am
• Pt. 4—A definitive, inarguable ranking of Persona 5 characters By Clayton Purdom May 2, 2017 | 5:00am
• Summoning genies and running for Swedish parliament at the Essen board game fair By Chris Field December 9, 2014 | 6:00am
• Nintendo’s Splatoon is armed to the gills with aquatic whimsy and puns By Derrick Sanskrit May 28, 2015 | 1:00pm
• A pair of glasses hides Metal Gear Solid V’s commentary on its development drama By Sam Barsanti November 11, 2015 | 6:00am
• What are you playing this weekend? By Sam Barsanti, Clayton Purdom, Matt Gerardi June 9, 2017 | 5:00am
• Wolfenstein II peaks with its Hitler scene, but what an incredible peak it is By William Hughes November 14, 2017 | 12:00pm
• Disco Elysium is the best unofficial Twin Peaks game ever made By William Hughes November 1, 2019 | 5:00am
• Sid Meier’s Memoir! debunks the myth of “Nuclear Gandhi”—but not the assumptions that created him By William Hughes September 11, 2020 | 5:00am
• An ode to Resident Evil Village’s goofy, gross, and beautiful mechanical toyboxes By William Hughes May 7, 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
• Neill Blomkamp is making video games now By Sam Barsanti July 20, 2021 | 9:34pm
• The 10 best games of 2022 (so far) By William Hughes, Sam Barsanti, Alexander Chatziioannou, Mike Rougeau, Grace Benfell June 29, 2022 | 8:00am
• Immortality is a welcome, unsettling turn to cinematic horror from the creator of Her Story By William Hughes August 30, 2022 | 8:00am
• Ranking Resident Evil: The lows and highs of gaming's greatest horror franchise By William Hughes, Sam Barsanti, Grace Benfell, Reid McCarter, Alexander Chatziioannou, Mike Rougeau October 28, 2022 | 2:00pm
• The six best (and one worst) trailers from The Game Awards By William Hughes December 9, 2022 | 5:53am
• Alice In Borderland is a fun, bloody reminder that there's no "keeping politics out of games" By William Hughes January 6, 2023 | 2:00pm
• Lies Of P's demo promises the "sexy Pinocchio fights evil puppets" game of your dreams By William Hughes July 7, 2023 | 2:00pm
• Game Theory: This is not a review of Alan Wake 2 By William Hughes November 3, 2023 | 1:00pm
• The best games of 2023 By William Hughes, Sam Barsanti, Jen Lennon December 20, 2023 | 1:00pm
• Dragon's Dogma 2 review: One of the strangest Dark Souls imitators of all time By William Hughes March 20, 2024 | 3:00pm
• Game Theory: How much bullshit are you willing to sit through to get to the actual game? By William Hughes April 12, 2024 | 1:00pm
• Game Theory: You don't need to wait to play Hades II just because it's in "Early Access" By William Hughes May 31, 2024 | 1:00pm
• Game Theory: Astro Bot is one of the most joyful games of 2024 By William Hughes September 6, 2024 | 10:00am
• Particularly existential Sims 4 expansion pack to let you intern under the Grim Reaper By Mary Kate Carr October 3, 2024 | 12:36pm
• Netflix replaces its AAA game studio with more AI junk By Matt Schimkowitz November 4, 2024 | 8:03pm
• The best games of 2024 By A.V. Club Staff December 19, 2024 | 11:00am
• Make Rise Of The Golden Idol your murderous holiday treat By William Hughes December 27, 2024 | 10:00am
• Is there such a thing as too much game? By William Hughes January 31, 2025 | 10:00am
• Press X to get dumped: 10 instances of video game romantic rejection By William Hughes February 11, 2025 | 1:00pm
• Avowed understands the appeal of a lil' Waterfall Treasure By William Hughes February 28, 2025 | 9:00am
• Split Fiction is a great co-op game—when it remembers to show, not tell By A.V. Club Staff March 6, 2025 | 10:00am
• Studio behind Pokémon Go sells for $3.5 billion By Emma Keates March 12, 2025 | 9:47am
• Promise Mascot Agency drives players to the far limits of charm By William Hughes April 25, 2025 | 9:00am
• Star Wars to tell Fortnite its Tales Of The Underworld before Disney Plus By Emma Keates April 29, 2025 | 4:15pm
• Elden Ring Nightreign hollows out a masterpiece, then asks you to find the fun By William Hughes May 28, 2025 | 10:00am
• Nintendo says the Switch 2 is its fastest-selling console of all time By William Hughes June 11, 2025 | 10:39pm
• Welp, they've made us think about Hank Hill playing Fortnite By William Hughes June 13, 2025 | 9:59pm
• South Park: The Stick Of Truth breaks the curse of the tie-in video game By John Teti April 29, 2014 | 5:00am
• InFamous: Second Son hides glimmers of new ideas amid its pretty visuals By John Teti April 30, 2014 | 5:00am
• The A.V. Club salutes Zelda II by reciting a few Hyrulian-themed sonnets By Erik Adams January 17, 2017 | 12:19am
• Nintendo invited us to a Switch play party and we said “uh, yeah” By Kevin Pang, Domenic Del Carmine February 24, 2017 | 4:43pm
• John Teti asks E3: Are you raising the bar or pushing the envelope? By Josh Modell June 26, 2017 | 8:45pm
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