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The Pride flag is more than a piece of cloth. It’s a symbol of identity, of rebellion, and a tribute to the activists who fought so hard for LGBTQ+ people to be able to openly show their Pride today....
Each level of Receiver 2 starts you out with the most omnipresent of video game tools: a gun. Normally, we wield virtual firearms with a near-unthinking ease, their controls largely standardize...
Since taking up the mantle as Final Fantasy XIV‘s director and producer, there have been many difficult and busy moments in Naoki Yoshida’s life. More than once, he felt he was facing...
There’s no strict science to a game’s success. Every developer hopes their game will become the next viral sensation — on every Twitch stream, millions of sales in a matter of weeks, and concurrent pl...
With Resident Evil Village out, protagonist Ethan Winters is on a lot of people’s minds. Unlike series’ mainstays Chris Redfield or Jill Valentine, Ethan has starred in two Resident Evil...
Most of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s “operators” are wholly fictional characters created for multiplayer and Warzone battle royale. A few are drawn from the game’s narrative campaign. A han...
Crusader Kings III may need no introduction. The historical soap opera simulator became an instant hit for its ability to recreate the epic highs and lows of being nobil...
In all likelihood, the first time you encounter an Engineer in Halo 3: ODST, it’ll be in the open world — in the dark, occupied streets of the futuristic African superci...
With Patch 5.3 set to launch on Aug. 11, Final Fantasy XIV is reaching greater heights than ever. Since Patch 5.2, it’s reached over 20 million registered players, with that number only set t...
Ever just stop and look at all the tiny details in a game? Someone had to put them there. Sure they may have been painted with brushes. Some of it may even be procedurally generated! But there’s so mu...
You’ve probably never heard of Genepool Software, the developer of X2: Wolverine’s Revenge — a video game tie-in to the 2001 X-Men sequel. Based out of a Victorian manor house in th...
The contours of genre are more guides than borders.
She Dreams Elsewhere has quickly jumped to the top of my most-anticipated game list since playing its demo during the Game Developers of Color Expo a few weekends ago. The game casts you as a c...
When Flight Simulator 2021 was released, it was praised as an antidote to the doldrums of quarantine. The appeal of flying anywhere in the world was obvious, and sales quickly shot over two mil...
This year I realized I basically only like two kinds of games: live service/arcade titles with no clear ending that let me chill out with my friends online, and tightly-paced experiences that take a f...
When people talk about their favorite PlayStation exclusives, the free-to-play game The Tomorrow Children doesn’t usually rank among them, buried under an avalanche of sad dad simulators and ci...
See that mountain? You can climb it.
Death in video games is not a new concept. It’s typical that we, as players, are directly responsible for death, or at least actively die in gruesome (and sometimes comical) ways. Killing is such an i...
In the 1990s, sewing machine manufacturers were dealing with two seemingly disconnected problems: Young people weren’t interested in learning to sew, and it was incredibly expensive to produce the dig...
Every would-be adventurer in Final Fantasy XIV inevitably takes trepidatious steps through the sun-bleached gates of Vesper Bay. For this quiet, seaside town makes legends out of...
