The things I have seen. The places I have been. My mind could have never conjured up where I just visited, where developer Plastic took me with Bound. Many describe games as escapism. Games transport us to snowy mountain villages, beautiful…

Abzû is gorgeous. Beautiful games are a dime a dozen in the landscape of contemporary video games, but a truly gorgeous game? That is a much rarer thing. While games like Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End provide an array of moments with jaw-dropping…

Batman. Pretty much one word tells a whole story there, and in a world where everyone knows who the Batman is, it’s no surprise to see him finally taking over video games, just like he did with movies all the way back…

Few things have left me lying awake in my bed. The night I finished Firewatch, clutching the controller through to three o’clock in the morning, I climbed into bed, exhausted, hoping to get a decent night’s sleep before needing to…

Polarized is the embodiment of all the successes Life is Strange has made with adventure games. It illustrates and uses its own mechanic in a way I never thought would be possible. It makes the tale of its two characters so…

Batman Arkham Knight is the close to a specific arc of Batman that Rocksteady started back in 2009. Across the last six years, they’ve told a story that is reminiscent of some of the most treasured Batman tales in media: Batman…

Life is Strange took a new path at the end of its third episode, going in a very different direction for the series as a whole. I wasn’t sure how they were going to treat that or where Dontnod was going…

Chaos Theory reiterates one, what a skilled developer Dontnod is, and two, how much of a welcome surprise Life is Strange really is. With Chaos Theory, they’ve completely leveled the playing field, quite literally changing the game and everything we…