Tag: Features

Managing Editor Lucas White’s top ten games of 2025

Turtles, Dreams, Horrors, and Digimon

Editor-at-Large Brian Barnett’s top ten games of 2025

Brian's personal 2025 GOTY List

Saudi Arabia bought EVO. We can still fight for the FGC’s soul

EVO is dead. Long live the FGC.

Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2 is a soulless sequel that missed the vein

The loss of grit in exchange for mediocrity.

Heated Rivalry and the hostages of the closet

The closet is a scary place, but sometimes it’s the only shield gay men have.

Skydive Pre-Flight Check – Castlevania: Rondo of Blood

Bram Stoker's Dracula is one of the most influential books ever written. It may not be the origin of vampires, but so much of...

The answer to The Real Housewives of New York’s problems is obvious

There’s an irresistible Hail Mary for Bravo to return the reality series to its former glory.

A mouth that eats and eats and eats

The trouble with mirrors.

Togetherness at a cost: Pluribus’ anti-hero and digital anxiety

Pluribus is a maddening, brilliant homerun from Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan that captures our post-pandemic world.

AI Could Never: Deltarune

Choose your own adventure, at your own peril.

Roleplaying in video games is bigger than ever (but it’s always been around)

From Grand Theft Auto Online to Baldur’s Gate 3, roleplaying is more popular than ever.

Fighting game preservation and the tyranny of choice

So many ways to revive a game, and yet, so little fighting games brought back to life.

Skydive Pre-Flight Check: F.E.A.R.

In a better timeline, we'd be praising F.E.A.R. for being the pivotal first-person shooter that changed the genre, becoming the template that others would try to build on or supplant for multiple console generations.