Jeeyon Shim carved a new path in crowdfunding for her keepsake games
A more independent approach
Shadowrun: Hong Kong is a perfect portrait of a cyberpunk city fighting for revolution
If cyberpunk lives on, Shadowrun: Hong Kong should be its guiding light.
Nightmare Frames finds the horror in 1980s Hollywood
Leaving LA can be a terror of its own in this point-and-click adventure
Apple TV’s Shining Girls is a genre-bending crime thriller
Chicago isn’t a dreamland for Kirby
Book Review: All the Seas of the World by Guy Gavriel Kay
My first foray into Guy Gavriel Kay’s writing has been one of the most artful instances of unintentional edging I’ve had in a long time.
Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong is a gleeful RPG soap opera
Courtly intrigue, but with fangs (and a decent number of bugs)
How studios support their devs in wartime
From the Russian invasion of Ukraine to the civil war in Yemen to military rule in Myanmar, developers are adapting to conflict around the world
Citizen Sleeper uses tabletop mechanics to play with the sci-fi RPG format
No clean endings
Dune: Spice Wars doesn’t bring anything new to the Dune table
The strategy game has entered early access, with uneven results
Chinatown Detective Agency review
Get ready to Google your own clues.
Weird West Review
On paper, Weird West reads like the kind of game I’d like, but in practice it’s an acquired taste.
Norco review
A landmark moment for point-and-click adventures.
Review | ‘Ghostwire: Tokyo’ is one part social commentary, one part Tokyo walking sim
In the first few hours of “Ghostwire: Tokyo,” it dawns on me that, given the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, this is probably the closest I’ll get to hanging out in Tokyo for the foreseeable future.
Going In Alone
An essay on playing and reading Elden Ring as a traditional fantasy text
This stunning Deep South fable isn't the next Kentucky Route Zero—it’s the first Norco
Breaking down the "bummer vibes" of Norco, a striking new adventure game.
In this hallucinatory MMO, everyone's a baby and nothing's what it seems
Lets Go! Baby! Friends World is a baffling browser-based MMO that harks back to social chatroom games.
Handmade monster babies and the people who love them
Artists are crafting incredibly lifelike monsters, and fans can’t get enough
These artists are making tiny ROMs that will probably outlive us all
Come sail away with Hundred Rabbits
Cooking at the end of the world in Final Fantasy XIV
How Endwalker explores the relationship between video game food and tech culture
Book Review: Marlon James' Moon Witch, Spider King
The Path to Witchhood: Marlon James’ Moon Witch, Spider King
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