Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent gaming glories, but of course, the real action is down in the comments, where we invite you to answer our eternal question: What Are You Playing This Weekend?
Here’s the level of subtlety you can expect from Detroit, the latest sci-fi story from adventure game/would-be-interactive-movie studio Quantic Dream: Within minutes of the player taking control of Markus—an android designed to look like a light-skinned black man, played by Grey’s Anatomy star Jesse Williams, and one…
Han Solo is based on a familiar archetype: Star Wars’ lovable scoundrel can trace his roots back to our earliest myths, while there are progenitors of his world-weary cynicism in Humphrey Bogart’s movies, his charming roguishness in Douglas Fairbanks’, and his reluctantly outlaw heroics throughout the samurai films…
Games are often left unfinished. Sometimes they’re too difficult, too vast, or too repetitive to see all the way through to the closing credits. To The Bitter End is our look at those endings that are worth fighting for—or at least worth reading about.
Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent gaming glories, but of course, the real action is down in the comments, where we invite you to answer our eternal question: What Are You Playing This Weekend?
Video games are a tough hobby to get into. In addition to being brutally expensive and impossibly time consuming, they’re also inherently inaccessible to a lot of people, as the physical demands of modern games and controllers are often too much for players with limited mobility. It’s an issue that’s become more…
It’s a common trope in zombie fiction to imply that the humans are the real monsters, usually because of some horrible way bad people take advantage of a zombie apocalypse to be extra bad (like Negan from The Walking Dead, The Governor from The Walking Dead, or every other character from The Walking Dead). Rarely has…
Spoiler Space offers thoughts on, and a place to discuss, the plot points we can’t reveal in our official reviews. Fair warning: Major plot points for God Of War—from the ending to every revelation and tease—will be revealed below.
Whether it’s thanks to podcasts, streaming series, or Stranger Things, the world of Dungeons & Dragons is being demystified for those who thought it was all cumbersome rules and statistics. There’s also been a conscious effort from Wizards Of The Coast, which acquired TSR in the late ’90s, to fling open the door for…
It’s always weird seeing someone without their mustache. Remember when Alex Trebek shaved his? The mustache had somehow bridged the nose with the mouth into one single unit for so long that the discovery of not just an upper lip but also a heretofore undiscovered expanse of flesh resting between them forced you to…
Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent gaming glories, but of course, the real action is down in the comments, where we invite you to answer our eternal question: What Are You Playing This Weekend?
Most people would reasonably assume the process of writing of a massive AAA game is notably different from writing a smaller indie game, much as Hollywood blockbusters normally involve numerous writers as opposed to small, personal films. And while that’s true, it may not be clear just how impersonal it can be.…
The latest update for Google Chrome has stopped videos from autoplaying with sound, which is great. It’s also had the side effect of removing audio entirely from web-based games, effectively breaking them.
On The Level examines one small part of a larger game.
Marvel has some big plans for bringing The Avengers to the world of video games, but considering how sparse the details remain, it seems we’re still a long way off from getting our hands on whatever big-budget spectacle the company is cooking up with publisher Square Enix. In the meantime, Marvel has announced it’s…
Gunpei Yokoi’s last major release at Nintendo was the Virtual Boy. It was a disaster, and there has long been speculation that it caused Yokoi to resign. In an article he wrote before his tragic death, Yokoi explained why he left the company. The Virtual Boy’s failure was not the reason.
Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent gaming glories, but of course, the real action is down in the comments, where we invite you to answer our eternal question: What Are You Playing This Weekend?
There’s been nearly 30 Castlevania games since the series debuted in Japan in 1986 and subsequently moved to the Nintendo a year later. Game quality has varied, but one aspect of the games has remained consistent: Those badass tunes. We did our own deep dive into the game’s signature musical style a few years ago, but…
Is Spelunky perfect? This is the question running through much pro-Spelunky literature. Certainly something so idiosyncratic, so random couldn’t be “perfect.” And yet the game delivers on a core promise so far-reaching in its implication as to tease perfection. That is, to be a perpetual adventure machine. An…
Rockstar Games is a little less than six months away from finally releasing Red Dead Redemption II, the hugely anticipated follow-up to its era-defining Western drama. And with that day closing in (unless, of course, the game suffers yet another delay) Rockstar has offered up a new trailer giving us the most in-depth…
