Behind the decade-long session of TribeNet and its play-by-email empires
Imagine the immensity of an RPG where a single campaign lasts for a staggering 10 years—perhaps even more.
Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty brings Sekiro’s combat to a mesmerizing new world
Surviving the calamities of Wo Long requires nearly obsessive hours of practice, but wwhat comes after is the exhilaration of being able to deftly execute hordes of enemies and demons.
Why do games media layoffs keep happening?
I covered the events behind the massive layoffs of Fanbyte, The Washington Post's Launcher, Future and The Gamurs Group.
Life is Strange: Double Exposure ends with a disappointing finale
Perhaps an ending where Max gets a reprieve from the slew of misfortunes that the world seems to enjoy hurling at her is too idealistic.
Life is Strange: Double Exposure is more heart than whodunit
A preview of Life Is Strange: Double Exposure
Apex Legends: From Titanfall sequel to battle royale masterpiece
In the beginning, Apex Legends featured only eight Legends, each broadly embodying a class archetype. Five years and 21 seasons later, the roster has swelled to a staggering 26 Legends.
Behind the decade-long session of TribeNet and its play-by-email empires
Imagine the immensity of an RPG where a single campaign lasts for a staggering 10 years—perhaps even more.
These developers are putting game preservation front and center
There are still developers out there who aren’t deterred, as they look to tackle the thorny field of game preservation by actively saving legacy games.
The Exuberance of Being Night School Studio
Adam Douglas has a ghastly secret. He shared the recipe
for a Cuban dish – the Arroz con Pollo – in an in-game radio station in Oxenfree II: Lost Signals, and it’s one that he describes as “very controversial.”
for a Cuban dish – the Arroz con Pollo – in an in-game radio station in Oxenfree II: Lost Signals, and it’s one that he describes as “very controversial.”
Not For Broadcast captures the high-octane rush of managing a newsroom
Not For Broadcast is a satirical FMV game about current affairs and propaganda, with several hours of video footage for players to splice, dice and curate for broadcast within a fictional European country.
Paint away your inner demons in Chicory: A Colorful Tale
Chicory is a game that thrives on your whims, allowing you to bask in the joy of forging your own path through self-expression.
4 games where you can talk your way out of trouble
Discover how far your powers of persuasion can take you in these four games.
How Black Myth: Wukong Developer’s History of Sexism Is Complicating its Journey to the West
Indie developer Game Science’s global fame is forcing it to confront its own sexism, and that of the Chinese tech industry.
A Beautiful View: Jusant and the Joys of Climbing
It’s hard to deny the parallels between Jusant’s sprawling deserts and that of our own world.
How Everything contemplates the meaning of existence through exploration
Everything is a philosophical game where you explore the furthest recesses of the universe in any form you can imagine.
Looking back at the legacy of Remedy’s Max Payne 2
Twenty years ago, Remedy released Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, a gritty, neo-noir shooter that features gunslinging sequences of feverish proportions, its pulpy violence enacted by a gruff, cynical detective, a broken shell of a man.
Mineko’s Night Market builds on 2023’s cozy game obsession
Once you get over the initial lull and gain access to more of the island’s corners, Mineko’s Night Market ramps up significantly, with a nearly dizzying amount of activities to pursue.
Midautumn builds upon Hades to explore an Asian diaspora experience
For the team at Midautumn, Hades has paved the way for the game to impart a story about an Asian diaspora community, faced with the threat of gentrification.
One Space Station’s Trash, Another Man's Treasure
The rush to collect trash items and recycle them has become a compulsion I can’t snap out of, gripping me with its cybernetic tendrils as the plot of System Shock—stopping the corrupt AI SHODAN, fighting for the resistance, saving humanity, and all that jazz—largely disperses into the ether.
The best games of 2023 so far, picked by the NPR staff
Contributed a smol, smol blurb on the System Shock remake to this article on the best games of 2023 so far. Wowzers!
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Is Still Legendary, 20 Years Later
Twenty years later, the mythology of KOTOR’s Star Wars tale, set in a galaxy far, far away and a period from a long, long time ago (a thousand years before the original trilogy) is still as phenomenal as it is immense and melodramatic.
Why do games media layoffs keep happening?
I covered the events behind the massive layoffs of Fanbyte, The Washington Post's Launcher, Future and The Gamurs Group.
The Tartarus Key review - retro horror that doesn't scare easily
There's a sense of artificiality to the horrors of The Tartarus Key, and it's one that the game just couldn't reconcile.
The Making of Metal Hellsinger
Interviewed the devs behind Metal Hellsinger on how they birthed this rad music rhythmic shooter
Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty brings Sekiro’s combat to a mesmerizing new world
Surviving the calamities of Wo Long requires nearly obsessive hours of practice, but wwhat comes after is the exhilaration of being able to deftly execute hordes of enemies and demons.
Looking For Isaac Clarke’s Voice
Something just doesn’t sit right; to see Clarke respond to his near-death experience so audibly feels somewhat perplexing, even out of the blue.
Harry Potter Can’t Escape J.K. Rowling, No Matter How Good ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ Is
There can be no “Death of the Author”, as Rowling embarks on yet another transphobic tirade online.
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