On a whim last night, I downloaded a copy of Vagrant Story to my PlayStation Vita (may it never, ever break). It’s…
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There are a lot of reasons to not write about video games. For most of my career, I’ve written for mainstream…
As one of the few proud PlayStation Vita holdouts (chants: Vita means life! It only rhymes with wife!) I spent a lot…
I’m the biggest sucker for a good PRESS START screen. For all the many hours I spend with a game, I reserve a lot of…
During my holiday travels, I’ve been messing around with the Switch port of The Witcher 3, partly out of morbid…
I’ve always been fascinated by Christmas music. It’s incredibly odd that we have a whole genre of popular music…
I love year-end season, when everyone is looking back on the last 12 months and figuring out what they loved most or…
It’s true: Five is a ridiculous number for summing up a decade’s worth of video games. It’s far too small. One can’t…
Axiom Verge is getting a sequel. Axiom Verge 2 was just announced during Nintendo’s Indie World showcase, and is coming Fall of 2020. It looks....like Axiom Verge! Hooray!
A whole lot of video games begin with your character waking up. It’s one of those things that you can’t stop…
Here’s a good way to win me over in both real life and in video games: Give me a damn spaceship. If you did, you’d…
When it comes to video games, “exploration” is kind of a bullshit word, a sexier way of saying hey you’re gonna be…
I’ve been playing a lot of Life Is Strange 2 lately. While I’m mostly doing this to catch up for the final episode…
Double jumps are a wonderful bit of video game nonsense, something that appears in game after game because they are,…
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The Nintendo Switch version of Alien: Isolation will arrive December 5th. The port will come with all 7 DLC add-ons, so get ready to bring your pal the Xenomorph with you on all your holiday travels.
There hasn’t been a better time to be a Star Wars fan. As this is being written, the ninth and final entry in the…
One of the biggest surprises in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, out today from developer Respawn, is how much its…
No one can really bullshit their way through Star Wars.The Star Wars universe is one of the most fully-realized and…
For most of my life, I have not played Pokémon games, and I’ve been fine with that. Like a lot of people my age, I…
Inspired by the recent 10-year anniversary of Dragon Age: Origins, I decided to revisit the BioWare role-playing…