If I had a penny for every time my older brother either nutmegged me and scored the winning goal in FIFA Street, or fly-kicked a ball at...
Beatrix Potter once had it in her mind that, while the world revolving around her had a rather opaque and complex tint to it, talking animals...
If you, like me, spent a good portion of your childhood flicking through the pages of a Where’s Wally book, then you’ll no doubt be able...
Precision and aim are ideally the building blocks of any tactical shooter. Compared to other shooter video games, the time-to-kill (TTK) is often shorter. This means...
There's always something about sneaking into places where you shouldn't be. Skulking through a room without being noticed and skillfully taking out adversaries really gets your...
When I first heard that the creators behind Journey were chalking up the outlines for an MMO, I couldn’t help but feel drawn to its concept. It didn’t...
It was just shy of a decade ago that I had the chance to enter Anne Frank’s former residence in Amsterdam. Well, technically, it wasn’t the full residence;...
Racing games have always had a special spot in the gaming world. From the classics like Need for Speed to the adrenaline-pumping thrills brought by Mario...
For every flower there’s a seed, and for every rare plant, there’s another piece of parchment in the ever-evolving catalog of unwritten types of flora that...
If you’ve ever ”accidentally” slipped into one of those ten-hour-long lo-fi playlists on YouTube—the videos that often depict a frog smoking marijuana, or BMO from Adventure...
If you’re growing weary of playing out the same old hand as an opportunistic ne’er-do-well whose only purpose is to bring peace and prosperity to a...
It's not uncanny that games boldly showcase their inspirations. Many games choose not to reinvent the wheel but instead borrow elements from those that came before....
When I first heard the title Content Warning, I immediately drew the curtains and set my speaker volume to zero, for in my mind, a game with such a...
If Hades and Disco Elysium had, by some random coincidence, glued themselves to the rhythmic nodes of Metal: Hellsinger and formulated an electronic rogue-like hack-and-slash, then chances are, Beat Slayer would be the finalized...
Aside from that one time when I “accidentally” left a pizza box in an air fryer and somehow set fire to a kitchen counter, I haven’t had any...