“What’s a ‘Gong Farmer’?” I asked Dennis Brännvall, the creative director of Star Wars: Battlefront and co-founder of Wayfinder Studios. We were chatting as I started playing Wayfinder’s upcoming ...

Often, we attach a certain descriptor to the fans of particular gaming genres. Someone might be a shooter aficionado or a puzzle expert, maybe a sports enthusiast, each eliciting a certain image that ...

Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

What kinds of lessons do we learn from our favorite pieces of fiction? Are they simply a means for escapism and enjoyment, or can they also have a tangible impact on our lives? Having played nearly ...

Murillo Zerbinatto is a contributor from Brazil. He's a JRPG enthusiast who has been around the world of games and content creation for more than six years now. He has a particular love for Final ...

Taylor Rioux is a writer and critic based in Minnesota. He has been writing professionally about games since 2024, after starting the website JetsonPlaysGames, which covers both video games and ...

My commute is 47 minutes each way. I know this because I timed it obsessively during the first week at my current job, trying to figure out exactly how much Final Fantasy VII I could play on the train ...

Combining the fantasy setting of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the building mechanics of Valheim, and the life simulation elements of The Sims, this upcoming action RPG will see you build, lead, trade, ...

I love cozy games. As someone pretty much chronically stressed out, they're great blood pressure regulators and I love the gentle pace of just wandering around, meeting weirdos, fishing, and cooking ...

Early friction gives way to brilliance in Crimson Desert, a game that merges open-world exploration with sophisticated combat in ways few action RPGs attempt. In 2014, I began my career at PCMag as a ...