There have been enough Lego games by now for their design to become familiarly formulaic. Follow the basic plot of a movie series, ...

Unlike the open worlds of L.A. Noire or even some GTA games, there is no lack of stuff to do in the third ...

It’s difficult to know exactly how to handle a new installment in a franchise that’s been around as long as The Legend of ...

With my seasonal viewings of Peter Jackson’s extended edition films, multiple re-readings of The Lord of the Rings novels, The Silmarillion and Tolkien’s ...

The current trend in game design is all about player agency, choices with consequence and open-ended gameplay, but Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception (PS3) ...

I loved Batman: Arkham Asylum so much that I was kind of afraid of Batman: Arkham City. I worried that the stars wouldn’t ...

X-Men Destiny gets a lot of things wrong. It’s only four hours long. It’s ugly. The platforming is a joke. The story is ...

Videogame jargon term of the week is “Vendor trash.” For the uninitiated, this term is used to describe random scraps, clutter and offal ...

The bright sun, the sound of the pounding surf, the endless supply of fruity drinks. Ahhh, paradise … or it would be if ...

Color. Shape. Line and motion. Texture and composition. These are the tools of a visual medium, and not many videogames use the entire ...

Several metric yonks ago I devoted this column to a brief glossary of elitist asshole game critic buzzwords, and one of those was ...

While videogames based on Marvel super hero movies aren’t that rare, most of them are pretty terrible. I object to this, both as ...