One of the things we’ve come to accept in video games is that we’re never going to get another big-budget, dialog-heavy RPG like ...

In the opening moments of the first Fallout game, your character – someone who has lived their entire life in a secure vault, ...

My last two columns were about Fallout 4, so this week I decided to answer some reader questions for a change of pace. ...

Bethesda isn’t a game developer, they’re a mad science lab. Every game they release is a crazy mix of fun ideas, terrible ideas, ...

I love Fallout 4. This will amaze the people who know me as the guy who mercilessly dumped on the beloved Fallout 3, ...

Last week it was announced that Activision paid 5.9 billion for King, the developer behind Candy Crush Saga. So basically, one group of ...

We’re in that odd lull between the “October Crappy Spooky Game” glut and the “End of year / Christmas” glut. (This year, that’s ...

SOMA is a hard game to talk about. The expectation is that it’s going to be another fright-fest like Amnesia: The Dark Descent. ...

To be fair, the Survival Horror genre has always been a mess, because nobody can agree on when it began, what games it ...

This week I came across this 2011 study that compared the effects of various “horror” games on players. The study limited itself to ...

“So Shamus, what do you think of / have you heard about the new System Shock Enhanced Edition?”, was a question everyone kept ...

If you’re a mechanic, people ask you about the strange sounds their car is making. If you’re a doctor, people ask you about ...