Jake Muncy

Let It Die Review: This PlayStation 4 Game Is Gory, Ridiculous, and I Think I Love It

Let it Die, the new PlayStation 4 brawler by Grasshopper Manufacture, might be brilliant. Or it might be terrible. We're not sure. → Read More

Please Don’t Take Final Fantasy XV‘s Worst Level Away From Us

The game's director says he will patch up 'Final Fantasy XV'"s absurdly terrible Chapter 13. He should leave it in all its awful glory. → Read More

Game Review: 'Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2' Lets You Be Yourself—Only Better

The game is a fan's dream, letting you imagine yourself in its world of transformation. → Read More

Review: Dishonored 2 Is One of the Most Fascinating Game Worlds Ever

Creative and complex, 'Dishonored 2' is a game of power and treachery that I can't wait to keep exploring, even after finishing it. → Read More

Game Review: House of the Dying Sun Gets Space Combat Down to a Science

This new game captures the feeling of PC space flight sims from the 1990s—then boils it down to its essence. → Read More

Titanfall 2 Single-Player Review: You Don’t Need No Mech to Have a Blast

Just running, blasting, and jumping around in Titanfall 2 is a whole lot of fun. → Read More

After Three Years of Multiplayer Mayhem, an Ode to Destiny's Best Gun

Let's just say it plainly: the game's best gun was its first. All hail the Khvostov. → Read More

Yes, ‘Red Dead Redemption 2’ Is Coming—But Don’t Expect It to Be an Encore

If you want a vision of how the open-world sequel might differ from its predecessor, look no further than the silent juggernaut of Grand Theft Auto Online. → Read More

It’s Time for Videogames to Embrace the Power of Failure Again

As disappointing Destiny and Call of Duty tales are proving, stories without failure are no stories at all. → Read More

As a mega-hyped sequel, 'Gears of War 4' is forced to traverse a narrow line between complacency and innovation. While not perfect, it largely succeeds. → Read More

Alphabet, a New Game from Katamari Damacy Creator Keita Takahashi, Is an Overwhelming Race

Keita Takahashi's game Alphabet says it's for "1 to 26 players." I found out the hard way that it wasn't a joke. → Read More

Don’t Let Yourself Get Too Close to Event[0]’s AI

In Event[0], a new game by independent developer Ocelot Society, you'll have to talk to---and bond with---a chatty AI in order to find your way home. → Read More

This Band Helped Me Embrace My True Trans Self

These are the first words I've written publicly about being trans, and I'm writing them because of Laura Jane Grace. → Read More

The Tomorrow Children for PS4 Isn’t Good, But It Is Bizarre

Sony's newest first-party PlayStation 4 title, a free-to-play city-building game, is one of the strangest videogames I've ever played. → Read More

You Were Never Meant to See the Warcraft Game the Internet Just Found

'Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans' was cancelled in 1998, and has never been playable. Until now. → Read More

Finally: Somebody Built an Adventure Game Using Google Forms

All Your Time-Tossed Selves by prolific interactive fiction designer Porpentine is a short, elegaic adventure game built in the Google Forms survey creator. → Read More

Obduction’s Beautiful World Is a Worthy Successor to Myst

Obduction represents an attempt to capture the spirit of Myst in another place and time. What's even more unlikely than its existence is that it succeeds. → Read More

Run the Horde as Run the Jewels in Gears of War 4

Killer Mike and El-P, rapping duo extraordinaire, are coming to the latest entry in the Gears of War videogame series. Run them gears fast. → Read More

Whoops, It’s 2016 and I Just Got Obsessed With Magic: The Gathering

After years of flirting with the classic card game, I'm finally hooked. Turns out, all it took was an online version that worked. → Read More

The Mr. Robot Game Is a Paranoid Nightmare, and I Can’t Look Away

Mr. Robot:1.51exfiltrati0n.apk, a story-based mobile game that ties into the hit hacking series, understands that it's the characters that make the show. → Read More