There is no genre quite like horror. At its best, it’s so much more than guts and gore, or tired tropes and torture scenes. It’s self-reflection. It’s catharsis. It’s entering an implicit agreement with a work’s creator: If you spill your guts out to me (metaphorically or perhaps literally), then …

Abubakar Salim is on a roll. Following his BAFTA-nominated performance of Bayek in Assassin’s Creed Origins, he has starred in two critically acclaimed HBO series–House of the Dragon and Raised by Wolves–voiced characters in World of Warcraft, Diablo 4, and Stray Gods, and has even shipped his own game at …

Less than two years after the release of Overwatch 2, game director Aaron Keller has announced that Blizzard is now open to reversing one of the series’ biggest–and most contentious–decisions: its shift to 5v5 gameplay. Keller shared the news in his latest Director’s Take, a regular blog he publishes to …

About 10 to 15 years ago, Capcom entered a lull. Resident Evil 6 was critically panned, Lost Planet 3 was released to largely negative reviews, and as a result, the studio’s reputation took a small hit. Recently, however, things have changed. With well received Street Fighter and Monster Hunter, and …

If you’re a part of The Sims community, you know there are dozens of different kinds of “Simmers,” as Maxis affectionately calls us. You have the luxury-focused “motherlode” spammers, the architects, the storytellers, the folks who find comfort in watching a simple family live out their simple life, the ladder-deleters, …

Okay, this might sound like a small thing. Maybe it is. But for those of us who have played a lot of The Sims 4, I think this is going to be a big deal: After 10 years of having to go through and apply accessories and makeup to each …

After months of references to a new, space-faring Overwatch hero, Blizzard has finally announced the next character headed to its popular first-person shooter: Juno. The studio shared the news via a trailer showcasing some of the upcoming support hero’s various skills, which seem to focus on mobility and providing long-range …

Okay, I’ll admit it: Outside of my brief love affair with Galaga and the small bit of Frogger I played as a child, I’ve never meaningfully engaged with the vast majority of arcade games. It’s my weakest area in terms of video game genres I’m knowledgeable in and as such, …

As a long-time fan of linear, turn-based RPGs, I’ve spent my fair share of time lamenting the fact that the Golden Age of this genre–which I’d define as the ’90s through early 2000s–is well behind us. However, after years of both the genre and the gaming industry as a whole …

Megan Thee Stallion is here to save “hot girl summer” with her new self-titled album, Megan. But on top of giving all the hotties out there a new reason to celebrate, the Grammy award-winning rapper is also throwing some love to one of her favorite forms of media: anime. In …