I am shocked at the degree to which I’m enjoying Silksong . Hollow Knight slid over me, so I wasn’t anticipating a game that fulfills my pervert need for intense, unforgiving, white knuckle difficulty. There is so much I love in this complex, post-lapsarian bug mound. It is undoubtedly a labor of love, one full of strong, opinionated choices and intentional friction. Unfortunately, some of those choices are ambiently annoying to me personally, tiny little irritants in an otherwise unspeakably beautiful and once

Skate was a video game first released back in 2007 that wasn't particularly interested in the waning days of "skate culture", in so much as it had once existed through the lens of the Vans Warped Tour, Jackass and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater . It was just a game about you, a skateboard and a public space.

Which meant it never achieved the same cultural (or commercial) success of the aforementioned Tony Hawk series, but it never wanted to. If Activision's

Gaming, at its core, is just a series of puzzles: some , some . splits the difference, turning the mundane act of proving your humanity into a spiraling test of pattern recognition that quickly escalates from a simple checkbox task into esoteric brain teasers that feel less like website security and more like psychological warfare.

Created by , I'm Not A Robot is a free-to-play riff on the CAPTCHA format, where players are tasked with completing randomized puzzles that include typing distorted text, clicking on traffic signs

It took mere hours after Charlie Kirk’s death at Utah Valley University before recreations of the scene—in which suspect Tyler Robinson allegedly shot Kirk from a nearby rooftop—started appearing on Roblox . Rendered in Roblox ’s crude, low fidelity style, people quickly created experiences (what Roblox calls the different games and locations on its platform) that lets users participate in or watch the killing play out. The following day, Roblox said it had removed that referenced the event.

It’s very likely these experiences drew

Between RFK Jr that video games are a root cause of mass shootings, the Secret Service , and the US Oversight Committee requesting the presence of Steam, Twitch, and Discord’s CEOs at a radicalization hearing , you’d almost think we were back in the 90s (except for the part where social media has broken everybody’s brains and Square is now remaking Final Fantasy VII instead of just making it). But nope, we’re in the present, once again snoozing our way through the

Last year I woke up with the hands of an alien. Every item I grasped fell to the floor like so many grains of sand; every doorknob became a lock I couldn’t open. It didn’t hurt, but hundreds of dollars of scans later I learned my tendons were full of tiny holes, multiple ligaments were sprained, and my nerves suffered from a syndrome that sounds like a . It’s not unusual you didn’t feel anything , my physical therapist told me. In life or death

If there's one genre of game I've spent more time playing in the past decade than any other-- more than MLGAM tactics games , more than sports games , more than quaint little European games about running a bus company--it's 4X. From Civilization to Endless Legend to Stellaris to Humankind , I've spent thousands of hours exploring, expanding, exploiting and exterminating, but as the calendar creeps closer to 2026 I don't know if I've ever

If there’s one thing that we can all say for sure about director James Gunn’s political beliefs, it’s that he hates Nazis. I wasn’t sure how he was going to incorporate that into the second season of Peacemaker , but viewers are pretty sure he’s found a way.

As someone who has a very high tolerance for James Gunn’s whole thing— levels of gore, dumb dirty jokes, extremely chatty characters, endlessly rehashing complicated feelings about your dad—I’ve

I spawned on a moon base in Arma 3 . My role was a rifleman, and I held some extra ammo for the rest of my squad. I put on my armor, which had “PRESS” written in white across the chest piece. Outside the base’s walls was the surface of a moon, which had a thin atmosphere and low gravity. I wasn’t going to be able to hear gunshots or footsteps while outside.

After being slowed down by technical issues, we were briefed on the mission