When game director Hidetaka Miyazaki tried to explain his then-new game Demon’s Souls to the masses, he chose another game as its reference point: the classic,...
These days, anybody who talks to me about video games hears a key phrase in my lexicon. “Oh, I watched my friend playing that at Gamer...
I attended a screening of Indie Game: The Movie, which is probably still the most famous documentary about video game development, in early 2012. It was...
Destiny 2: The Final Shape is less than a month away, and Bungie has officially set the stage with its latest cinematic. [Warning: This post contains...
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It’s a good time to be an X-Men fan. The stellar first season of X-Men ‘97 just wrapped up, Insomniac Games is working on a Wolverine...
Pokémon Go is having a Bounsweet Community Day event on Sunday, May 19, from 2-5 p.m. in your local time. As expected with a Community Day...
Who are the X-Men for? The malleability of the mutant metaphor has long been a strength of the Marvel property. As a product of the ’60s,...
Minecraft is turning 15 years old. Somehow, it feels like it’s been around for much, much longer, which speaks to the ubiquity of the game. Despite...