“If only you could talk to these creatures, then perhaps you could try and make friends with them, form alliances… Now that would ...

It’s been a pretty solid couple of weeks for video game storytelling. Soma did it for me with its existential sci-fi, monsters notwithstanding. ...

Since time began, people have used storytelling in order to achieve one of our primary goals, that of survival. It’s funny, isn’t it? ...

There’s something missing from indie narrative experiment Her Story: namely, the “story” part. To be fair, Her Story does some interesting things with ...

Gone Home still comes up now and again in conversation. Depending on who you ask, it was either an amazing and emotional experience, ...

One of the problems with triple-A games I’ve noticed lately is that they seem to be making an awful lot of assumptions about ...

If you throw the phrase “procedural content” out in conversation with your fellow gamers they’ll probably say, “Oh, you mean like Minecraft?” That’s ...

“I must arm myself to fight you by making weapons out of my imperfections. … But I’m dead inside.” – Henry Rollins/Tool, “Bottom” ...

Even though videogames are an entirely new medium, blessed – or cursed depending on your point of view – with both unique challenges ...

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

Welcome back to Extra Consideration, where we allow our contributors room to tackle the industry’s big issues. Last week, Yahtzee, Shamus Young and ...

If you stumble into the fantasy and science-fiction section of any well-stocked bookstore these days, you’ll notice right away that there’s a section ...