Moving house might seem like a strange premise for a video game. The building of boxes, the weeks of packing, the living in ...

Paracelsus never takes off her plague doctor’s mask, it seems. I imagine the glass circles sewn into the leather beak must be misting ...

My first match in Hell Let Loose is a study in failure. I misread the ordnance map that’s displayed prior to spawning and ...

This discussion of Ghost of Tsushima, social class, and samurai privilege versus stealth practicality contains only early-game spoilers. Ghost of Tsushima is a ...

If there is one thing you can always rely on with immersive sims like Deathloop, it’s the old Looking Glass passcode, a specific ...

This article contains some light spoilers for Psychonauts 2 and PSI-King’s Sensorium. The last couple of console generations have brought us instant classics ...

Games based on time loops, where the protagonist is caught in a repeating cycle of events, are having something of a moment. Deathloop, ...

There are two extremes to cyberpunk fiction. At one end, the slow, moody, contemplative storytelling and minimalist world-building seen in the likes of ...

The Forgotten City plays like elaborate clockwork: Perform an action or make a dialogue choice and watch the roughly two dozen citizens trapped ...

A lot has been said about PlayStation 5’s DualSense controller since its launch last November. The haptic feedback can be applied with precision ...

Max Payne will celebrate its 20th anniversary next month. Going back to it now, particularly in light of its sequels and legacy, feels ...

This discussion of STALKER 2 contains spoilers for the novel Roadside Picnic, the film Stalker, and for the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. franchise. The gameplay trailer ...