Reviews

There are some games where it’s nice to have a notebook handy: Elden Ring, Tunic, and Disney Dreamlight Valley come to mind. And then there are games where you need...

Signalis, a new sci-fi survival horror game from developer rose-engine (aka Barbara Wittmann and Yuri Stern), opens with an excerpt of the final line from H.P. Lovecraft’s 1925 short story...

From the start, HBO’s House of the Dragon had to contend with an audience that at times seemed like a jilted lover. Game of Thrones, its predecessor, had ended in...

After a few days with Marvel Snap, the question I keep asking myself is: “Where’s the hook?” I’m not sure this is the game’s fault; if anything, this feels like...

Putting on the cap on the Winters story. Resident Evil Village Winters is an expansion returning players to some of the iconic places from the main game. Experiencing it this...

The dungeons of Castle Dimitrescu are dimly lit, and Rose steps forward with a rusted key in hand. Behind the door comes the voice of a young woman, begging Rose...

Tabletop role-playing’s most interesting developments of the past couple decades have been taking place in the indie games scene. Trophy Dark is emblematic of this movement, perfectly capturing a horrific...

It’s hard to review a video game where you hated the ending, because of course, you can’t cover that in the review. It’s also hard to review a video game...

One of Black Adam’s many unnecessary brawls between Dwayne Johnson’s eponymous antihero and the more conventional superheroes of the Justice Society of America takes place in the room of a...

Game designer Manny Vega spent more than two decades in video games, surviving tours with Pandemic (Mercenaries 2), Midway (NBA Ballers), and Electronic Arts, among others. But the game he...