This article contains minor spoilers for Stray in its discussion of cats and finding hope in dystopian cyberpunk. Cyberpunk is inherently dystopian — ...

Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey famously begins with what Arthur C. Clarke called the “longest flash forward in the history of movies,” ...

Frank Herbert’s original series of Dune novels is, amongst other things, a tale of cycles. The titular planet is transformed from desert to ...

These days most people remember the giant mushrooms. That memory might seem apt, given that The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind was quite the ...

“The sky bleeds a color you knew as a child,” NORCO holds me transfixed with one of its many deceptively simple sentences. I’ve ...

The best climate fiction doesn’t preach a message; it simply shows what it might be like to live in a radically different environment. ...

This is a largely spoiler-free discussion of decadence, decay, and post-apocalypse in FromSoftware games, including Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Sekiro, and Elden ...

This article contains spoilers for the prologue campaign in Total War: Warhammer III. Whatever things I might have expected from Total War: Warhammer ...

The 2018 “Choice and Consequence” trailer and E3 demo for Dying Light 2 promised complex decisions that dynamically shape the rest of the ...

I have a bad track record with plants. Amongst my shameful history of minor negligence is the slow and unintentionally torturous manslaughter of ...

This discussion of storytelling and narrative devices contains minor spoilers for Returnal, none for Dark Souls. “Octopus upstairs? OUR BRETHREN ARE SEVERED,” reads ...

More than eight years since Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist and after years of rumors and cameos, a remake of the original Splinter ...