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Here's the Thing
A screenshot from King's Field shows two frog-like adventurers exploring a dark tunnel, swords aloft.

A Return to From

By Rob Rich • July 16th, 2025

Like many folks, Rob loves him some FromSoft (Dark Souls, Elden Ring, etc). But he still misses the company’s much older approaches to the Action RPG genre.

Forms in Light
A screenshot from Breath of the Wild shows a wide-angle view of Gerudo Town with several palm trees and market stalls situated around a plaza.

Mastering the Desert

By Justin Reeve • July 15th, 2025

Gerudo Town is noticeably different from the surrounding desert, mostly on account of its urban grid, something which looks notably unnatural.

Dialogue
Detail from Manet's The Funeral show a small group of mourners gathered under dark trees.

A Dialogue with Joshua Rivera

By Autumn Wright • July 11th, 2025

“I don’t bill myself as a games critic. It’s not good for my career prospects.”

Noah's Beat Box
A pair of fake chompers you'd find in an orthodontist's office, both sporting braces bound with colorful rubber bands.

Peak Orthodontist Music

By Noah Springer • July 10th, 2025

If you were being tortured by some dentist around the end of history, check out the Orthodontist Music playlist.

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.

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.

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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