Gaming
Baldur’s Gate 3 Review: A New RPG Classic
For better or for worse, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has taken firm root in my mind as the formative gaming experience. Since then, I have played games that are better in many ways, such as Red Dead Redemption 2…
The Sims Retrospective: Continuing the Legacy of Simulation Video Games
The Sims is a life simulation video game that was first released in 2000 by Maxis and Electronic Arts. It quickly became one of the most successful, beloved, and influential games of all time, with over 200 million copies sold…
Hogwarts Legacy: Not the Best Leap but a Big Improvement
For years, we've yearned for a great Harry Potter game. We got some okay LEGO Potter games, an underwhelming EA Sports Quidditch game, and the nightmare that is Harry Potter Kinect. But we still kept hoping for that fairy tale…
The Last of Us Season 1: A Successful Video Game Adaptation
Originally a hit video game released in 2013, the Last of Us adaptation has gone through many stages of development, almost becoming a Sam Raimi film starring Maisie Williams before turning into an HBO series. Despite starring high-profile actors and…
Why There Are so Few Women in Esports
In recent years, the world of video gaming has taken fanbases and enthusiasts by storm. With esports, the competitive side of video games, becoming a lucrative and popular genre of sports, games like DOTA 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Fortnite, League…
Hitman 3: A Brilliant Conclusion to the Trilogy, with Plenty of Creative Kills and Inventive Level Design
The last five years have been good if you’re a Hitman fan. Sure, we also got the laughably ridiculous film Htiman: Agent 47 and then there’s the general miasma of living under the Trump administration, but we have been spoiled…
Cyberpunk 2077: a Good Game Buried Under an Ocean of Bugs
Cyberpunk 2077 was supposed to be the biggest video game launch of the last five years. Developer CD Projekt Red gained a lot of goodwill with the success of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and their new game seemed to…
Why Among Us is Here to Stay (and How You can get Better at the Game)
If you’re like most people on the internet these days, you might have already jumped onto the Among Us bandwagon. However you're probably late to the party-2 years late, to be precise. The multiplayer gaming sensation, released in 2018 finally…
Why We Need Better Female Representation in Video Games
If we look at women in past video game history, women have not gotten the respect they deserve until now. In order to sell games and appeal to the largely male straight market, women are drawn disproportionately with nonexistent waists,…
What I am Playing: the Outer Worlds
There’s an urge to compare The Outer Worlds with Fallout from the get go, when you get revived from decades’ long cryogenic sleep and end up crash landing on a nearby planet. These two share some of their DNA, given…
