The 35 greatest horror games of all time
What scares you? It’s a question you know the answer to innately and immediately, as individualized as your…
The Road, A Quiet Place, and the golden age of prepper pop culture
It first hit me during A Quiet Place, as John Krasinski and Emily Blunt’s fictional kids quietly played a board game by…
Don’t be afraid of The Last Of Us Part II’s violence
Earlier this week, Sony held a press conference during the Paris Games Week trade show. If you follow games, you’re…
The Last
Of Us and Uncharted 4 co-director departs Naughty Dog
Bruce Straley, co-director of The Last Of Us and multiple Uncharted games, is stepping away from Naughty Dog. The…
Naughty Dog announces The Last Of Us Part II
2013’s post-apocalyptic road trip The Last Of Us often gets held up as a milestone in video game storytelling, with…
Readers remember their favorite pointless places in video games
This week, we kicked off a new Special Topics In Gameology mini-series on the things video games leave unseen. Anthony…
The end is the beginning: 17 characters who found a fresh start in the apocalypse
A pompous, awkward, acne-spotted 16-year-old, Harold Lauder is one of the few immune to the superflu that wipes out 98…
Home sweet wasteland: 7 perfectly livable post-apocalyptic communities
As Matt Gerardi noted in his review this week, the nuke-ravaged world of Fallout 4 places a greater emphasis than ever…
Do you have any unfinished games you can’t bring yourself to give up on?
This installment’s question comes from A.V. Club contributor Zack Handlen:
Here are the nominees for the 2015 WGA Video Game Writing award
The 2015 Writers Guild of America Awards are being handed out on February 14, and the nominees for the Video Game…
What women in ’70s slasher films tell us about women in games today
In her 1992 book Men, Women, And Chain Saws: Gender In The Modern Horror Film, film academic Carol Clover noted that at…
What game has truly terrified you?
This week’s question, which we’re visiting amid all the talk around the new Silent Hill and its bizarre teaser, comes…
Sony to make people read The Last Of Us script on stage
The Last Of Us, Naughty Dog’s post fungal-apocalypse drama, has been showered with just about every possible accolade…
Is a slow start a dealbreaker for games?
This week, I’m joined by Gameological contributor Drew Toal, who recently went and joined the hordes of people who own…
Which games don’t need a sequel?
Today’s question is something of a follow-up to our last Q&A about in-game pop culture, and it comes from our own John…
The Last Of Us to be remade as a motion picture
The Last Of Us, which was The A.V. Club readership’s astute pick for the best game of 2013, is set to become a…
Watch This: Sony posts feature-length YouTube video about the making of The Last Of Us
Yesterday, Sony published a feature-length documentary on YouTube that chronicles the making of The Last Of Us, the…