Review
Gravity Ghost is about universal symmetry and not pooping in the afterlife
Mario Galaxy, with a surprising amount of weight.
Stephanie Carmichael
Review
Lisa makes a monster out of you
Fulfilling the primal need for violence and glistening bodies.
Review
Never Alone, the "first Alaska Native game," is a diorama of nature
Folklore made as real as graphics can get.
Article
The unexpected charms of Pokémon Art Academy
You grow up, but you never leave.
Review
Futuridium is a surprisingly Kubrickian take on intergalactic combat
Here’s one space war you can’t win.
Eve: Valkyrie
Horizons
We’re being conditioned to think of virtual reality as “a new medium,” which it may someday be. In the meantime, developers are trying to transmute all that promise into playable experiences. Here are a few of the most exciting.
Review
DreadOut is old-school torture
The scissors-lady snippeth.
Review
Shu’s Garden shows that growing up is hard
Planting a seed in the thirsty soil of videogames.
Article
How M. C. Escher’s "little worlds" inspired the gorgeous upcoming Monument Valley
Not to mention Sonic the Hedgehog, Fez, Diablo II…
Article
Garden Warfare aims to be the shooter for you and your 80-year-old grandma
An inside look at an FPS looking to do something different.
Article
Inside the twenty-year collaboration that brought us Psychonauts, Full Throttle, and Broken Age
Meet the John Williams to Tim Schafer’s Spielberg.
Review
Bardbarian is equal parts music-battling heaven and grinding hell
There is one really, really big problem with this game.