PT, the playable teaser for Silent Hills, is celebrating its 10-year anniversary today, August 12, 2024. Below, we look back at how even as a demo, it impacted the survival horror genre. Nobody thought much of a new horror title from an unknown studio called 7780, dropped in right as …

Super Metroid recently celebrated its 30-year anniversary. Below, we look back at how it used and helped to create horror game tropes. It begins with a benign pulse over black. An otherworldly synth shriek interrupting. Random shots of dead scientists in a pitch black laboratory. The only thing alive is …

(spoilers within for Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty; TW: discussion of suicide) Two fugitives are riding a monorail. They’ve escaped capture. They’re home free. Both of them are tired, bloody, bruised, but hopeful. The monorail is about to take them to freedom, to a place where none of their immeasurable crimes …

More than just the way they approach narrative, level design, and gunplay, there is one constant throughout every single one of Remedy’s titles: they will always have the perfect song for the perfect occasion. While Alan Wake 2 is certainly their magnum opus in that regard among several contenders, it’s …

Altered Beast is celebrating its 35-year anniversary today, June 14, 2023. Below, we look back at why the highly derided game is so memorable to a generation of gamers. Altered Beast is one of those games that most hardcore gamers know and probably don’t actually like. Most retrospectives focus on …

Enter the Matrix is celebrating its 20-year anniversary today, May 14, 2023. Below, we take a look at how the game broke new ground for interconnected, cross-media storytelling. Nearly 25 years later, the original Matrix’s legacy as a stone-cold classic film is secure. Arguably, it was pretty much a done …

BioShock is celebrating its 10-year anniversary today, March 26, 2023. Below, we take a critical eye to how it ultimately mishandles its prominent Black revolutionary character, Daisy Fitzroy. Let me tell you a story: a story about a slave. You need a javascript enabled browser to watch videos. Click To …

In the year 2022, we’ve finally come to a point where a video game being adapted into a film or a TV show isn’t an immediate cause of stress and nail-biting. We live in an age of two shockingly good Sonic the Hedgehog movies, a delightful live-action Pokemon film, a …

With so many streaming services to choose from, you might find yourself wondering who offers the best bang for your bucks. After all, they seemingly all have their own programming libraries, original programming, and bonuses–whether it’s live sports, same-day theatrical releases, or sometimes even a reliable user interface will do …

The Xbox Series X is an absolute beast of a console, packed to the gills with new next-gen features. But while something like Quick Resume is ready to use right out of the box, one of the system’s best features isn’t enabled by default, and requires a bit of tinkering: …