Citizens of Earth finds purpose in its satire
A JRPG constantly folding in on itself.
Stephen Hershey
The Deer God makes you relate to hunter and hunted
Finding karma deep in nature.
The Luigi Death Stare and why memes take root
Deciphering the language of play.
Act One of Maker’s Eden fails to set up story, substance, or anything
Pointing and clicking in nowheresville.
Ever go to a rave with a bunch of robots? You can, in Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark
Lights, cameras, transforming robots, lots of action.
Transistor: Supergiant’s accidental spiritual successor
One of the year’s most anticipated RPGs grew organically.
Road to TWO5SIX: Steve Gaynor
The creator of last year’s watershed Gone Home discusses its wake.
Revisiting Yoshi’s Island, Nintendo’s leftfield masterpiece
The ultimate escort mission gets its due.
Is World of Warcraft a religion? One anthropologist thinks so
Creating a sacred space, virtual or otherwise.
Broken Age teases at what’s to come, and looks great doing it
There will be pointing and clicking.
Secrets of Raetikon is quietly and frequently astonishing
You smell that? That’s Alpine air.
Sorcery Saga: Curse of the Great Curry God is a recipe for acquired tastes only
You’ll be sweating bullets.
How Zelda games tap into the Neo-Shamanic and link to the way, way past
Ready? Let’s get heady.
TV may have an anti-hero fixation, but so do videogames
Righting the wrongs of villainy.
The 5 most underwhelming apologies of 2013
Sorry, “I’m sorry” just doesn’t cut it.
Playing War: A New World Algorithm
A meditation on violence, America and videogames.
Making a case for the whimsical, absurd Phoenix Wright: Dual Destinies
A comedy of trial and errors.
Pokemon X/Y is the exact game we’ve been playing since 1996, and that’s okay
Game Freak sticks to its guns.
Is MirrorMoon EP the first Buddhist videogame?
Ground control to player one.