Opinion
Half-Life: Alyx Is Not Receiving the Mainstream Recognition It Deserves
Half-Life: Alyx, Valve’s surprise VR return to the series that established the company, has picked up a number of “Best in VR” awards ...
Opinion
Pathologic 2 Is a Fascinating Experiment in Method Role-Playing
Pathologic 2 didn’t get a lot of attention when it released last year. There were good reasons for that: It is a follow-up ...
Opinion
Baldur’s Gate 3’s Mind-Eating Parasite Informs All of Act 1, for Better and for Worse
It’s hard to imagine a more dramatic opening for Larian Studios’ Baldur’s Gate 3: You are imprisoned aboard an airship piloted by Mind ...
Opinion
How Thief Helped Pioneer the New Weird Genre
Everyone agrees that Thief: The Dark Project was important. It helped to establish stealth games and immersive sims, demonstrated new ways to integrate ...
Opinion
A Weekend with Crusader Kings III, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Complexity
About five years ago my friend tried to get me into Crusader Kings II, Paradox Interactive’s famously complex medieval history generator, by telling ...
Opinion
The Spice Must Flow: The Rise and Fall of Dune Games
I remember playing Dune II on my Sega Genesis around 1995. The game was too complex for a controller, I was seven, and ...
Reviews
Wasteland 3 Review: A Shakespearean Narrative in a Lifeless World
The niche InXile Entertainment has carved out for Wasteland 3 makes a lot of sense. While Bethesda’s first-person Fallout 3 (2008) popularized the ...
Opinion
Why Deus Ex: Human Revolution Is Being Forgotten
The original Deus Ex, released in 2000, quickly cemented a lasting reputation for its level design, plot, and complex systems that encouraged player ...
