A.V. Club readers name their favorite games of 2018
Earlier this week, our writers submitted for reader consideration (and even, occasionally, approval) their collection…
Keyboard Geniuses
Keyboard Geniuses is our occasional glance at a few intriguing, witty, or otherwise notable posts from the community’s discussion threads. Comments have been excerpted and edited here for grammar, length, and/or clarity.
The story behind Metal Gear Survive is way more interesting than the game itself
This week, our resident Metal Gear super-fan Sam Barsanti busted into Metal Gear Survive, the weird-as-hell MGS5…
In a land of dinosaurs and dragons, Monster Hunter: World makes you the apex predator
Monster Hunter: World has its claws deep into the A.V. Club gaming crew, and after William Hughes wrapped up his…
What’s the best way to bring an
old game to new players?
Keyboard Geniuses is back, and for the first highlighted comments of 2018, we’re turning to this week’s look at Sony’s …
Gameological
readers
declare their favorite games of 2017
We’ve already offered up our favorite games (and levels and independent games) of the year, and now it’s time for the…
Nintendo struck open-world gold by making exploration its own reward
We talked a lot about open-world games this week, starting with Clayton Purdom’s look at how Nintendo’s two big 2017…
How Wolfenstein
II makes its difficulty matter
Yesterday, I put together a little For Our Consideration piece about my experience with only really getting into Wolfen…
Maybe Resident
Evil’s crappy controls were a new take on a classic horror cliché
We closed out October, the spookiest of months, with Anthony John Agnello’s look back at the career of Resident Evil creator…
Jeez,
people love to do some messed up shit in RollerCoaster
Tycoon
The site celebrated the 15-year anniversary of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, a game everyone loves to screw around in,…
Minecraft can
be a surprisingly effective horror game
Over in this week’s What Are You Playing This Weekend? thread, The Demons discussed why they’re still drawn to Minecraf…
Why are games like Stardew
Valley so
darn satisfying?
Over in this week’s What Are You Playing This Weekend? thread, Wolfman Jew mentioned picking up the farming and simple…
Is Cuphead really
as hard as everyone is making it out to be?
Cuphead, the long-awaited action game inspired by classic animation of the early 20th Century, finally arrived last…
Why does online gaming have to be so anxiety inducing?
This week, Clayton Purdom continued his ongoing review of Destiny 2 with a second entry bemoaning what he perceived to…
Why The Colonel's Bequest is one of adventure gaming's most underrated gems
Over in this week’s What Are You Playing This Weekend? thread, Shinigami Apple Merchant continued their excellent…
Does Destiny 2 solve the original
game’s storytelling woes?
This week, Clayton Purdom kicked off his multi-part review of Destiny 2. He covered a ton of ground in this first entry,…
Does Mario +
Rabbids do XCOM better
than XCOM?
This week, I dropped a review of Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, the new totally weird but totally pretty good strategy…
We now know what
Half-Life 2: Episode 3 might
have been,
but did it sound any good?
Marc Laidlaw, a former Valve employee and the writer behind the Half-Life series, shocked the internet overnight when…
Was Sonic The Hedgehog too fast for his own good?
Also this week, I put together a review of Sonic Mania, Sega’s latest Sonic The Hedgehog game and an attempted…