Watching today’s Google Press Conference at GDC, I couldn’t help but feel a mixture of emotions best described as a cross between awe and dread.

Heading into today’s Nintendo Direct, the discourse surrounding the highly anticipated broadcast had reached a fever pitch, as many speculated about the validity of various predictions that had gained prominence in recent months. Most of these predictions, in hindsight, seemed fairly rote – the sort of predictions…

Welcome to part five of Kingdom Hearts in Review! Every Wednesday for the next several weeks, I’ll be publishing a series of comprehensive articles looking back on each individual Kingdom Hearts game, examining a variety of topics ranging from the historical contexts surrounding each game’s release to their gameplay…

Welcome to part four of Kingdom Hearts in Review! Every Wednesday for the next several weeks, I’ll be publishing a series of comprehensive articles looking back on each individual Kingdom Hearts game, examining a variety of topics ranging from the historical contexts surrounding each game’s release to their gameplay…

Welcome to part three of Kingdom Hearts in Review! Every Wednesday for the next several weeks, I’ll be publishing a series of comprehensive articles looking back on each individual Kingdom Hearts game, examining a variety of topics ranging from the historical contexts surrounding each game’s release to their…

Welcome to part two of Kingdom Hearts in Review! Every Wednesday for the next several weeks, I’ll be publishing a series of comprehensive articles looking back on each individual Kingdom Hearts game, examining a variety of topics ranging from the historical contexts surrounding each game’s release to their gameplay…

I don’t like judging an unreleased product before it launches. I just don’t. It’s not a matter of whether or not the writing appears to be on the wall. It’s just that, prior to a product’s launch, whether the product is a game, a movie, or otherwise, the image of that product that exists in your head is most likely…

I recently began replaying the Doom series from beginning to end, partly because I hadn’t done so since the launch of 2016’s reboot and partly because I needed something to fill the gap in between the releases of Pokémon Let’s Go and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

(The following contains spoilers for Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu and Pokémon: Let’s Go Eevee.)

If there’s one particular moment of self-discovery that I’ve had in the past couple of months, specifically as it pertains to my relationship with video games, it’s that I almost certainly have a type.

I don’t know if I’ve ever felt worse for pre-judging a video game before release than I have for nonchalantly dismissing Pokémon: Let’s Go Pikachu and Let’s Go Eevee out of hand when they were revealed earlier this year.

Today, Dontnod Entertainment finally dropped the official reveal trailer for Life Is Strange 2 – the long-awaited sequel to the breakout 2015 adventure game.

Two days ago, my jaw dropped when it was announced that THQ Nordic had acquired the rights to TimeSplitters, the trilogy of first-person shooters released by Free Radical Games in the early 2000’s. My jaw specifically dropped not because THQ’s acquisition of the IP surprised me, but rather, because seeing the word …

After two years of teases, previews, E3 demos and an inordinate amount of press coverage, my most anticipated game of 2018 finally comes out in less than a month: Insomniac Games’ Spider-Man, featuring an older, more seasoned version of the web-slinger faced with the threat of a consortium of his greatest villains.

Earlier today, I had a conversation with my best friend about the recent commotion surrounding Nintendo’s crackdown on ROM distributors and the manner in which it seems to have restarted a discussion about the legality of emulation and the preservation of classic games. She and I frequent different spheres of the…

(The following contains spoilers for the first episode of The Walking Dead: The Final Season, “Done Running”.)

As I watched today’s livestream of the Doom Eternal gameplay reveal from QuakeCon, there was a particular sound bite that stuck with me, delivered by Marty Stratton, the game’s director. It wasn’t anything regarding the versatility of Doom’s enemies or weaponry – I take these for granted when it comes to this…

No matter how many video games one completes, there are always going to be blind-spots; those series that inevitably pass them by despite positive word-of-mouth and consistent critical praise. There are plenty of reasons, be they that people simply don’t have the time or money, are suffering from significant backlogs,…

I’m not quite sure when I realized it.

Earlier this summer, in anticipation of San Diego Comic-Con, Telltale Games released a video update in which the ever-growing developer revealed an upcoming slate of three previously-unannounced games, all of which were scheduled to debut at some point during the next eighteen months. The first of these games, Batman:…