Ice and Lightning
God of War (2018) stood as maybe the highest peak in the mountain range of Best Games of the Eighth Console Generation. With intricate, brutal...
Smells Like Corporate Spirit
Sometime in early October 1991, my best friend Jason and I sat perched on the padded vinyl bumper that bordered the edges of his...
Gamer Guide
It says a lot about how good 2023 was for gaming that a game as excellent as The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the...
Go, Forbidden West
Five years is damn near forever in video game time. Since 2017’s fantastic Horizon Zero Dawn, there’s been The Legend of Zelda: Breath of...
What’s New With Counter-Strike 2?
The roster of competing teams for the 2024 Esports World Cup’s Counter-Strike 2 (CS2) championship has been finalized. Given this hype, the activity for the...
Kiddie Table
When I think too long on contemporary grown-ups, I do not like what I see.
Something about it reminds of the final scene in Citizen...
Holiday Games
If one thing has helped save the sanity of many in 2020, it’s video games. As moviegoing screeched to a halt, and various films...
Sports Rush: Making The Best of Esports
Not breaking news: kids like to play video games. So has it been since Pong introduced us to the idea that pounding pixels was...
A Landmark Game
I am not really a gamer, but I will forever be susceptible to the pixilated flicker of an ancient CRT screen’s silent exhortation to...
Best Video Games of 2016
While 2016 may have seemed like a year of brutal celebrity deaths and political upheaval, the world of video games saw big releases, little...