Revisiting Davey Wreden and William Pugh’s The Stanley Parable Ever since it was released as a mod for Half-Life 2, The Stanley Parable has been a cult phenomenon. It...
20 Years Later: Ico In 2001, the videogame landscape was different. The PS2 was king of the hill. PCs hadn’t yet become another kind of console....
Memories of the Nintendo 64 New consoles always come packaged in boxes and dreams, promises of games to come. I can remember my first days with...
Near the road, listening to campfire blues. Someone’s guitar gently weeps as fellow wanderers shut their eyes. Irradiated monsters await nearby yet nothing matters now but this...
My first outings with videogames were memorable but far from profound. Most Argentine children of my generation grew up with the Family Game, a cheap Nintendo...
Ocarina of Time has such a soothing opening. Link is woken from his slumber by a hyperactive fairy named Navi who claims he’s been summoned by...
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published March 28, 2017. As a teenager, I felt I would never age. Yet I also knew I would, and...
It may not be perfect, but Deus Ex is still a blueprint for gaming freedom.
The graphics are so awful and the draw distance so shallow, that the perpetually foggy landscape becomes an enemy itself, endangering the player with unseen chasms...
Some games are difficult. Others boost your self-confidence, through victorious battles and epic narrative progress, only to then nonchalantly inform you, forty hours in, that you’re...