Metamorphabet is proof my daughter is growing up in the future
And that’s probably okay. I think?
Review
Look, but don’t touch, in Kirby’s claymation Rainbow Curse
One of the most purely abstract videogame protagonists gets tangible, sorta.
Life Is Strange posts the first Instagram noir
Become a teen, or someone’s idea of one, in Square’s episodic adventure.
The Order: 1886: Whitechapel, Red Barrels
A world—a city—that deserves more
Sunless Sea is Heart of Darkness as written by H.P. Lovecraft
A chronicle of tragedies on the high seas.
Evolve celebrates the oldest game of all
Turtle Rock’s hunting game satisfies some hard-coded desires.
Telltale’s Game of Thrones attempts to play nice with HBO’s version
Something strange happens when we can only explore Westeros as one family.
Dying Light’s biggest scares aren’t its monsters
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Apotheon makes us all barbarians
A beautiful place meant to be destroyed.
Citizens of Earth finds purpose in its satire
A JRPG constantly folding in on itself.
Gravity Ghost is about universal symmetry and not pooping in the afterlife
Mario Galaxy, with a surprising amount of weight.
Beeswing explores what it means to go home again, with mixed results
A game as lovely as it is cloying.
Republique’s third episode evokes the great "expanded universes" of TV sci-fi
Camouflaj lays the breadcrumbs.
Mayday! Deep Space relies on the panic in your mind
Years of watching space-horror come back to haunt you.
Good lord, is Guilty Gear Xrd pretty and impenetrable
It’s deep cuts only in Arc System Works’ latest.
Lisa makes a monster out of you
Fulfilling the primal need for violence and glistening bodies.
The Talos Principle and the philosophical puzzle of being a philosophical puzzler
Fun with cubes and the voice of God.
Elegy for a Dead World gets you writing, but don’t expect more than that
A shortcut to the place where stories are created.
Names, narrative, and other incidentals in Far Cry 4
Better late than never: the Kill Screen review.
The Old City: Leviathan Forgets its Audience
First-person eavesdropping
We are slaves to Destiny
Parsing the insidious darkness beneath The Dark Below.
WWE 2K15 reveals the grueling life of a superstar
A harsh reality.
Lumino City is gorgeous, but what is it hiding?
Digging into State of Play’s paper-craft world.
The Red Wedding looms large in Telltale’s Game of Thrones
Valar morghulis, indeed.
Never Alone, the "first Alaska Native game," is a diorama of nature
Folklore made as real as graphics can get.