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Casting Deep Meteo
A screenshot from Shrine's Legacy shows the entrance to a stone structure guarded by four large gargoyles.

You Know PAX: PAX East 2025

By Levi Rubeck • July 9th, 2025

Still a helluva weekend, but it’s impossible to ignore the widening margins of the expo floor and the lack of big publisher presence.

Totally Generic
A still from Mountainhead shows the four main characters arm-in-arm in day-glo orange ski coats on the side of a snowy mountain.

Mountainhead

By Natasha Ochshorn • July 8th, 2025

The bros up at Mountainhead are going to leave their bodies behind.

Land of Eem

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • July 7th, 2025

What lies beneath the Mucklands? The Underlands, naturally!

Area of Effect
Key art from Citizen Sleeper 2 shows and android figure floating alongside a black cat in a yellow void.

Leaving, Staying

By Jay Castello • July 4th, 2025

Leaving the Eye is almost impossible. You’re just going to have to make the most of it.

Don't Stop Believing
A screenshot from Dante's Inferno shows a bird's eye view of the inside of a church, portions of which are on fire. At one end, a lone figure stands in a pure white shaft of light, holding a massive blade.

Dante’s Inferno Was Visceral to a Fault

By Elijah Beahm • July 3rd, 2025

Is it possible to be a devil’s advocate when you’re condemning a game on Hell?

Here Be Monsters
DOOM Eternal's Marauder stands staring down steely-eyed at the viewer, horns curved up towards the stormy sky.

The Thinking Man’s Doom: Why The Marauder Rules, Actually

By Emma Kostopolus • July 2nd, 2025

Dark Ages is a sadly watered-down version of the thing I loved most about the controversial Marauder: how much it made me think about how to play.

Exploits Feature

The Softboiled Allure of Kyle Hyde

By David Silbert • July 1st, 2025

Masculinity rarely sees this sort of moral culpability, especially from a white, straight man who is used to shooting a gun.

Open World
Key art for Doom The Dark Ages where the Doom guy is in his green armor but it's kind of medieval with spikes and a cool wolf mane and fire in the background

Guy Who Doesn’t Like Stuff

By Edward Smith • June 30th, 2025

My only responsibility as a critic is to apprehend every game on its own terms.

Hambone Goes to the Library

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • June 30th, 2025

The local library has fantasy books and air conditioning, what else do you need for a great summer?

Mind Palaces
A photograph of turquoise seas under a perfect blue sky, a white-sand beach stretching across the frame.

The Indefinable Allure of a Summer Reading Program

By Maddi Chilton • June 27th, 2025

If a summer reading program hadn’t presented itself to me, I would have gone looking for it anyway, because I am a sucker for this shit.

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