Sympathy for the Goblin: A review of Styx: Master of Shadows
Show them the meaning of fear.
Review
Hell-bent for leather with Bayonetta 2
Stand by for Exciter.
FIFA 15 outlines a more worldly, joyous sports game
Tiki-taka. Tiki-taka. Tiki-taka.
Neverending Nightmares finds horror in repetition. Monotony, too.
How many times can something be scary?
Dying beautifully in Alien: Isolation
The adventures of a terrified critic in the inky depths of space.
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel takes aim on itself
If on a moon’s surface a vault hunter …
Futuridium is a surprisingly Kubrickian take on intergalactic combat
Here’s one space war you can’t win.
Shadow of Mordor shines, despite its Tolkien skin
Let the nemesis free.
NHL 15 highlights all the problems of annual sports games
Notes from the purgatory of menus.
Shaking off the allegories of Spirits of Spring
The follow-up to Papo y Yo is of two minds.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter doesn’t know when to disappear
Holding hands with a stranger.
Super Smash Bros. for 3DS is not a videogame-it’s a galaxy
How deep will you get sucked in?
J.U.L.I.A.: Among the Stars is only partly robotic
Finding a heart.
Murasaki Baby makes parenting seem impossible
Lending a helping hand.
Hyrule Warriors plays rough with your childhood
In which the pinata refills itself.
I still believe in Destiny
Bungie’s epic is strange, beautiful, and infuriating.
Hatoful Boyfriend steps up the comedy game
Come for the pigeons, stay for the satanic undertones.
Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call is a trip through stolen time
On finding your way home.
The Walking Dead’s season finale crystallizes the game’s uneasy morality
What those morals are remains up for grabs.
Like its predecessor, Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair is compulsively readable
Real, live drama. Sometimes dead.
Hunting for witches in Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
The crossover mines uneasy territory.
A new Madden ignores and confronts all the NFL’s problems
How much reality should we demand from our videogames?
Keeping the Cold War quiet in CounterSpy
Dapper on the outside.
Act One of Maker’s Eden fails to set up story, substance, or anything
Pointing and clicking in nowheresville.
Rumors from the forlorn: An Eidolon Review
Wandering at the end of the world.