Reviews

After 16 mainline installments, it’s hard to say that any one thing defines the Final Fantasy series. There are certain immutable pieces of symbolism that must carry over from game...

Like most funny stories, No Hard Feelings seems like a bad idea at first. It’s a movie in which Jennifer Lawrence, in her first lead role in a full-on comedy,...

In video gaming circles, combat flight simulation tends to be an exclusively first-person affair. Developers have been fixated for decades on putting regular folks into the cockpits of historical aircraft...

In his book Vimy Ridge, British journalist and military historian Alexander McKee described how deafening sounds could be registered as touch. “I felt that if I lifted a finger I...

Horror is a vast genre, ranging from blood-soaked slasher films to strange and cerebral campfire stories. Homebody, published by Rogue Games and developed by Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator...

It’s difficult to envision if you didn’t live through it, but there used to be options for baseball video games on every major platform. There have been hundreds, plural, of...

The worst part of playing a modern board game is “the teach” — that interminable period of time when you first sit down to share something unusual with a new...

For a movie about a guy who can move incomprehensibly fast, The Flash sure did arrive late. Originally planned for a 2016 release, according to a 2013 DC movie plan...

Ted Lasso has ended, and everyone is handling it great. We don’t see the moment when Ted (Jason Sudeikis) announces he’s leaving AFC Richmond and England to head home to...

Decades into producing a franchise, it’s easy to lose perspective on who your fans are and what they value. Look no further than Dungeons & Dragons’ OGL fiasco in January,...