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In the old, abandoned relics of a wooden house, there’s a small bright petal plant in a green pot that’s still thriving in Far: Changing Tides. I can’t help but pick it up, this little flash of color in a world of muted tones. Flinging it on my back, it’s …

From the slate of games Nintendo has on its roster for this year, 2022 could be a truly seminal year for the Japanese gaming giant. Although it has delivered some excellent titles in recent years, the Switch has used remakes and re-releases to balance out a steady rollout of new …

Magic and mystery lie at the heart of Forspoken. Square Enix is drawing on the experience of Luminous Productions to establish the core rhythms of its play, a new studio staffed up with the developers who helped bring Final Fantasy 15 to life. The world has been carefully crafted by …

I don’t know what I expected going into Inscryption (opens in new tab), a bizarre new deckbuilder from Pony Island creator Daniel Mullins, but it wasn’t a talking stoat. Inscryption is a roguelike card game designed to be cleared several times, and after beating it once (which is not actually …

I love firsts, and Dark Souls is full of them. Jaw-dropping, head-scratching, gut-wrenching firsts. Like your first encounter with the Great Hammer-wielding Asylum Demon, or your first glimpse at the majestic spires of Anor Londo. Your first tentative steps into the murky Depths, or your first rage quit courtesy of …

I don’t think I’ve played anything that’s quite as hot a mess of stuff happening as Martha Is Dead in a long while. After two hours playing the game’s opening, I feel like I need more time to digest everything this psychological horror game tries to do. There are long, …

Connected universes have been taking over the pop-cultural landscape for the past decade but, early teases of Remedy’s effort aside, the concept has yet to reach videogames. Part of the reason, no doubt, is that games are slow-moving behemoths even by cinematic standards, making it all but impossible to corral …