Reviews

Arise: A Simple Story is a narrative game with a difference. It tells an emotive, human story, but unlike many “walking sims,” in which I stroll from one story chapter...

Lost Ember tells a human story without humans. In the ruins of a tribal civilization, only wildlife remains, growing and moving through abandoned spaces that hint at a past of...

The best horror deals with a single powerful anxiety like isolation, the loss of identity, or the threat of technology. The Apple TV Plus psychological thriller series Servant, produced and...

It isn’t apparent exactly what writer-directors Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn did to make their Netflix film The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open so tense and real until...

Oculus Link is currently in beta, and it’s in beta; it took me a surprising amount of wrangling updates, plugging in cables, hard reboots, and sacrificing goats to get things...

The technical hook of 1917, a World War I action drama told in one continuous shot, is an illusion. Shadowy hallways, screen-crossing soldiers, and occasional computer graphics mask the cuts...

Star Wars: The Last Jedi writer-director Rian Johnson has proven he’s a master at playing with genre. His debut film Brick delved into traditional noir detective-story territory, but set the...

It’s been 18 years, but Shenmue III has finally arrived, thanks to the magic of the modern economy, Kickstarter backers, and the Unreal engine. The campaign was fronted by a...

Netflix’s new mystery film Earthquake Bird brings back memories of the gossip columns of 2012, when Twilight star Kristen Stewart (then in a relationship with Robert Pattinson) and then-married Snow...

Earlier this year, Google promised the future. A cloud-powered streaming service named Stadia would change how we find, play, and share video games. At least, that was the thesis of...