The Binding Of Isaac is the most successful video game ever made about a small child committing suicide by asphyxiating in a box.

This week’s entry: Breakout

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?

Despite some minor improvements, Cyberpunk 2077 still is a pretty godawful train wreck of an overpromising, underdelivering video game. Meanwhile, Frasier is still pretty great, if we’re remembering it correctly. And yet, like a tossed salad and scrambled eggs, the two are not exactly a combination many would think…

Adult trading card speculators have gone and ruined Pokémon for the kids. Now that the franchise’s long-running card game has been embraced by investment-minded buyers (spurred on in part, we write with regret, by Logan Paul) who needed to find yet another dumb way to try to grow their bank accounts, the cards’…

Resident Evil Village has been out for almost a week at this point, which means we’ve now spent roughly a week’s worth of time thinking about all the cool stuff in Resident Evil Village. (Certainly, we’ll never look at mannequins designed to look like an approximation of our dead wife the same way again.) As such,…

Resident Evil Village already includes an embarrassment of monsters, from werewolves and vampires to haunted dolls and whatever kind of fish-person hybrid this guy is. But a modder who goes by JTeghius Kittius has decided that the game’s existing line-up of horrors wasn’t complete, and has rounded it out by swapping…

Time loop stories are power fantasies addressing a powerlessness we all share: The inability to make the past better than it was. “If I’d just done this one thing different,” we tell ourselves when the sleep won’t come. “If I’d only known better.” Paired with that other great “Wouldn’t it be nice” hypothetical—a…

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?

You know how it is: You log on to your PlayStation, realize another month has come and gone, and then suddenly bolt upright because you forgot to mail off the rent check again. But then, once that adrenaline spike has been properly disposed with, you start thinking about the fact that there’s a new batch of free PS…

The Resident Evil games have always looked to Hollywood creature features for inspiration. But as the series shambles into its 25th year, Capcom has reached back further than ever before, past even the ravenous ghouls of George Romero’s 1968 Night Of The Living Dead, to a kind of ground zero of things that go bump in…

Going to work for a corporate entity with a shiny image like Nintendo requires some sacrifice. Many companies, including those in the entertainment industry, require morality clauses. These rules bar participants from acting in a way that the company finds inappropriate in a way that can hurt their product. Generally…

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?

Of the many mundane activities we’ve stopped participating in over the last year, the handshake is... well, probably among the least important of them. And yet, after so many months of going without the once-routine motions of reaching out our fleshy little digits so they can be enclosed within another’s, a virtual…

Confession time: The selection schema for the games we play on the A.V. Club Twitch channel is often a shockingly un-scientific process, boiling down, roughly, to, “What do we really want to play right now?” Which both explains why our stream is once again running a day late this week (due to press embargoes) and why…

In 2009, video game publisher THQ advertised an instantly forgettable mini-game collection called Big Family Games by trying to send a working, 24 karat gold-plated Nintendo Wii to Queen Elizabeth II. Big Liz didn’t end up taking possession of the console, which means that the golden Wii drifted through filthy…

Nintendo has a habit of being slow to adopt popular trends in the video game community, with the company usually preferring to hold back and develop its own wacky technology until those popular trends have become impossible to ignore. HD graphics and disc-based media are two notable examples (though Nintendo has gone…

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?

Fans of our A.V. Club Twitch broadcasts might have noticed that we missed yesterday’s regular stream. There’s a very simple reason for that: We really wanted to stream Housemarque’s new, beautiful, and brutal sci-fi roguelike Returnal this week, and the embargo on video footage wasn’t up until today.

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?