Gaming

Edgelord animation, riffing on Warhammer Space Marines, develops exciting new ways to ruin brains

Despite competition from box-office-crushing hobbits, X-Men, and Autobots, Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar landed as one of 2014’s big theatrical hits. But its ultimate legacy wasn’t clear at the time of that success: Would the tear-jerking story of a father crossing the…

Cooperative physics-platformer Human Fall Flat is one of my favourite back-burner games, something I check in on once every six months or so to see what nonsense has been added, eagerly play through the new levels, and then memory hole…

Pokémon anatomy is something that rarely crosses my mind. I’m not even bothered by how many legs a Pokémon has or how concerningly buff it might be. Yet after playing Pokémon Pokopia, I find myself preoccupied with thinking about the…

I haven’t checked in on Icarus, the sci-fi survival game from DayZ creator Dean Hall, for quite a long time. And, well, a lot has changed in the years since it launched as a solid but somewhat unremarkable survival game.…

Muppets Tonight was a variety show that debuted on ABC on March 8, 1996. Like The Muppet Show, it was a comedy/variety series which featured some of the biggest stars of its day. There were, however, some key differences. The…

There is an almost fractal quality to the history of id Software, in that the closer you look at it, the more games seem to appear. The studio’s first official game is Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons, but…

Almost every Makoto Shinkai story contains an element of fantasy wish-fulfillment. His acclaimed, record-breaking Your Name (2016) is about star-crossed lovers who reunite after defying the rules of fate, while Weathering With You (2019) revolves around a girl who can…