Tag: Features

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.

Hamazaki Has To Goh – where does Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio draw the line on casting, and why is it not at sexual assault?

Teruyuki Kagawa isn’t the first time the Like a Dragon series had criminality connected to its actors, but it’s the first that can’t be forgiven.

Detention: Three flavors of political dread

When adaptation gets it right.

Resident Evil 2 (N64) – The tiny cartridge that made me a big fan

The N64 changes made RE2 work for me.

Corpse Party is a frightening, gory mess, but only with headphones on

How a RPG Maker cult classic uses audio to subvert visual novel reward systems and fuck you up at the same time.

Riftbound’s Chengran Chai talks launch anxiety, allocation, and the meta while destroying me at his own game

Executive Producer Chengran Chai proves he's no pushover in our pre-launch Riftbound showdown.

They Live’s horrific satire has aged immaculately

John Carpenter's cult classic somehow feels even more poignant in our modern political climate.

Hope, zombies, and Resident Evil

What if we decided the world is self-evidently worth defending?

At The End of Time, Hades 2 betrays itself

Supergiant Games fumbles the Hades 2 narrative when it really matters.

Skydive Pre-Flight Check: Bastion

Hades 2 is freshly out of early access and once again reminding everyone why Supergiant Games is an indie darling. As Game of the...

The people responsible for some of video games’ best action choreography

Exploring film and video games' symbiotic relationship

I dislike football, but Rematch’s loose and simple approach to it has unearthed warm childhood memories

Sloclap has successfully captured what kicking a ball around with friends as a kid felt like, making it a perfect companion piece to Despelote.