Back in 2015, when creative director Clint Hocking and his team began crafting the near-future world of Watch Dogs: Legion, some of the biggest technology companies in the world were confidently describing skies buzzing with…
Haunted house stories are having a moment. It might be quarantine. Or it could be Netflix's fault—its release of The Haunting of Bly Manor has reinvigorated the discourse about what makes a good haunted house…
Skating through a hi-def recreation of the late-1990s shopping mall in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 is, uh, strange. Everything is right where you left it 20 years ago: the smash-able glass, the…
In 2008, James “Clayster” Eubanks, then 16, decided he had what it took to be the number one Call of Duty player in the world. Growing up in Virginia, Eubanks owned all the latest consoles…
If there’s a commonality in video game writing these days—particularly in pieces about superhero titles—it’s discourse around how studios craft experiences that make gamers feel like the characters they’re playing. Rocksteady grounded its Arkham games…
See if this premise sounds familiar: You're a soldier aboard a far-flung space installation, forced into combat against a confederation of aliens, all centered on the same goal of apparently killing every human they find.…