Once upon a time, Isabelline Fallow lived with her sisters in a quaint house that sat upon forgotten farmland in the middle of nowhere. They worked together for months, planting crops and crafting a home. …

Samus Aran has never had to convince us that she’s a badass. The design of her Power Armor is perfect and iconic. Distinctive for its gilded washed-orange shell and instantly recognizable bird-fluted crimson helmet complete with glowing green visor, fans know Samus from her Speed Booster to her Arm Cannon.

The end of the world often encourages a division of perspective. We are used to dystopia. We are used to shopping malls full of zombies and suspicious survivors and lonely treks across the globe. Our modern dystopia is both dull and aggravating, one seeded by a bodily virus as well…

The city is quiet. Limned by a black and pink skyline silhouetted against foreboding ocher, there is a sense of impending dread. An apocalypse is soon at hand, one spurred forward by the sudden emergence of a radical and terrifying kaiju. Even with the terrific military might available, there’s little…

The indie scene these days is filled with fantastic action titles. Celeste, Shovel Knight, Cuphead, Katana Zero. This renaissance is due to the creativity of the teams, the designers who played the beloved games of yesteryear and have crafted powerful experiences in their own right gilded with all the bells…

Gentleness. When asked what might make the world a better place, what one thing would turn society toward the better, that’s my answer. Gentleness.

In his famous speech from The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin said:

Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much…

When I was in my senior year of high school, I had fully convinced myself that video games were reaching their endpoint.

Not video games as a whole (an artistic medium that has gone through nothing but turbulent ups and downs since its conception), but video games for me. It’s…