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Mar. 21, 2024
The Platonic Ideal of Fantasy Adventure Dragon’s Dogma 2 delivers a quirky, evocative open world straight out of a sword-and-sorcery novel.
video game review
Feb. 22, 2024
Going Through It in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth The open world of Cloud Strife & Co. is weirdly relatable.
featurettes
Jan. 19, 2024
Demystifying Game Design in The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered Behind-the-scenes features give a fascinating, if incomplete, look behind Naughty Dog’s curtain.
2024 preview
Jan. 4, 2024
21 Games We Can’t Wait to Play in 2024 Dragon’s Dogma makes its long-awaited return, Princess Peach dons pants, a survival shooter made in the shadow of the Russia-Ukraine war, and more.
welcome to vice city
Dec. 5, 2023
Will Grand Theft Auto 6 Bring Catharsis? New protagonist Lucia seems well suited to express the joy of wanton destruction.
video game review
Oct. 31, 2023
The Weirdest Blockbuster Video Game Ever Made Alan Wake 2 , the sequel to Remedy Entertainment’s cult hit, is equal parts esoteric, daring, and moving.
interactive entertainment
Oct. 31, 2023
‘WTF Is Silent Hill: Ascension ?’ The horror video-game franchise is back with an “interactive streaming series.” Its creators think it could be the future of entertainment.
vulture lists
May 22, 2023
The 100 Hardest Video-Game Levels of All Time Dizzying shooters, agonizing puzzles, and water stages (ugh) that raise the question: Continue?
video games
Feb. 23, 2023
Hogwarts Legacy Is J.K. Rowling’s Legacy, Summed Up in a Dud of a GameThe feverishly anticipated Harry Potter video game can’t muster the fantasy escapism it so desperately wants.
The Callisto Protocol Ups the IckThe spiritual successor to the survival-horror classic Dead Space doesn’t let the dread build.
video game review
Nov. 3, 2022
Kratos’s Contradictions Are Amplified in God of War Ragnarök The muscleman returns for another buccaneering (but conflicted) take on fantasy violence.
Everything We Know About the Rockstar Games Grand Theft Auto 6 Leak A hacker claims to have the source code for what is perhaps the most anticipated game in history.
video games
Aug. 30, 2022
Whatever Happened to Marissa Marcel? Solve an unsettling Hollywood mystery in Sam Barlow’s new video game, Immortality.
video game review
July 19, 2022
Stray Takes a Cat’s Eye View of Cyberpunk DystopiaThe new perspective is adorable, but only scratches the surface.
video games
Mar. 24, 2022
The ‘Petroleum Blues’ of Norco Tribeca’s first Games Award winner is a point-and-click gothic adventure.
video games
Feb. 10, 2022
An Influx of Time-Loop Video Games Highlight Gaming’s Inescapable Meta Loop What do Deathloop, Twelve Minutes, and Outer Wilds have to say about a medium reliant on win-fail states?