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 ...

It might have been plagued by memes and development concerns, but Halo Infinite’s campaign premiere back in July 2020 had me excited. The ...

In a year that has given us the likes of Genesis Noir, Mundaun, and Cruelty Squad, a virtual art exhibition by one of ...

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 ...