The final episode of Life Is Strange, Polarized, feels more like two separate episodes. There’s the first half, where Maxine Caulfield escapes from Mark Jefferson’s disturbing basement. And the second half: Max […]

Metal Gear Solid V is basically Far Cry, specifically Far Cry 3 and 4. It’s got the open world, the variety of weapons, the sneaking options, the firefight options, and the base capturing. Heck, it’s even got […]

If you’re someone who played World of Warcraft a long time ago or someone who has managed to avoid it all these years, it’s hard to get interested in new expansions. It’s a bunch of features and tweaks to existing […]

The Dark Souls 3 trailer is stuffed with several shots from the game, but there’s still so little context and information to go on. It’s hard to tell who is who and what is what. But there’s a couple things that […]

One of the many reasons Telltale’s The Walking Dead Season 1 worked was its careful attention to characters. The series built up its cast of survivors just to put them into incredibly tense situations to make […]

If you, like me, play a lot of video games, are familiar with their intricacies, the people who make them, and the culture surrounding them, then you need to give The Magic Circle a shot. Not only does this […]

The big, final decision in A Nest of Vipers, the penultimate episode in Telltale’s Game of Thrones series, demonstrates the strength of the developer’s player-choice-based storyline. It’s the peak of two […]

The number of days between us and Dark Souls 3 are dropping. All we have to do is get through the holiday season and it’ll feel like it’s right around the corner, as long as it doesn’t get delayed, that is.

Dark […]

The leaked image of a Batman: Arkham-looking Superman game might be fake (or not), but we can still speculate on what a Warner Bros. Superman game could look like. And with games like Shadow of Mordor, a […]

Next month marks the eighth anniversary of Sony announcing that Rockstar Games was working on a PlayStation exclusive game, which we later learned was Agent, in 2007. It was officially announced at E3 2009 and […]

Good characters are made of a lot of things, but only two of them drive everything they do: wants and needs.

The video examines The Last of Us’ Joel and how his wants and needs conflict to make a good story. […]

The Witcher 3 uses the same basic storytelling structure as South Park, and it’s why even the game’s sidequests are so compelling.

We’ll call it Therefore/But […]

We don’t know a lot about Rise of the Tomb Raider.

We know it will continue Lara Croft’s journey from where the 2013 game left off. We know it’ll have a crafting system and stealth combat. And we know it’s only […]

The big day is coming. And that means the big announcements are coming.

There will always be some that we completely didn’t expect, but there’s always even more that we can pretty accurately predict. So, let’s […]

I keep thinking about how important Gone Home is to games as a storytelling medium.

It’s difficult to put in words because the way the game handles it is very […]