Three writers sat in a room in the Microsoft Theater, looking at one man in a room with his wife. She wants to have dessert, so he sets the table while she goes into the other room. The man starts eating without her. Presumably, the guy to ...

Solve The Mystery of Woolley Mountain in today's PC and Switch contest! At some point in time, I became the guy who features and reviews adventure games. I didn't grow up playing them, so I'm not sure how this came to pass. Life can sometim...

Graavik looks like a postcard. A small village nestled alongside a larger-than-life fjord, the town's pastoral architecture and scenic landscape combine to create an impossibly beautiful place. Anyone would be lucky to wind up here, amid an...

[Getting Weird with Wes is a series meant to highlight all the bizarre shit floating around out there in the gaming universe. I hate normal things. Join me in celebrating the strange.] I took last weekend off from Getting Weird with We...

I didn't even last ten minutes into my first session with Outer Wilds, the intriguing open-world adventure game from Annapurna Interactive and Mobius Digital. A freshly minted astronaut from the tiny world of Timber Hearth, I took a bit too...

Leave it to virtual reality to get me swept up in the Five Nights at Freddy's craze. While Help Wanted will resonate best with players who are already familiar with Scott Cawthon's wacky world of killer animatronics, it's still perfectly pa...

Sea of Solitude looks rife with mystery and despair. What little we've seen is a poignant depiction of a young woman coping with loneliness. The physical manifestation is a sinking city and many horrifying monsters. For obvious reason...

For once, we aren't playing as the poor soul that ran afoul of a too-smart-for-its-own-good artificial intelligence. In Observation, a near-future sci-fi thriller from Stories Untold developer No Code and publisher Devolver Digital, the tab...

If you ever want to experience a haunted house from the comfort of your own home, Layers of Fear would like to have a word. The first spooky-door-opening adventure was about a delusional painter's lonely descent into madness in a Victorian ...

Since the release of Sonic Adventure 2 back in 2001, Sonic has just gone down a very unfortunate path of potential bestiality, becoming a werehog, one too many Crush 40 concerts, blue arms, Twitter, and now possibly looking like a product o...

As reported by the movie moguls over at Variety, production company Constantin Films has secured the rights to produce a movie based on the high-explosive escapades of Square Enix' Just Cause franchise.Expected to commence shooting next yea...

Until Dawn creator Supermassive is giving us more of a good thing with The Dark Pictures Anthology, a collection of standalone cinematic horror stories. It's precisely what I hoped the studio would work on after digging into its chilly teen...

Switch is about to get one of the finest indie hits from the last generation of consoles. Josef Fares' video game debut Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons is bringing its familial bonding to Switch on May 28 for $15. The most unexpected ad...

Today's contest features Devolver Digital's hit game The Swords of Ditto for Switch! The Swords of Ditto just launched an awesome new expansion pack, Mormo's Curse, which adds all sorts of new stuff to the game. Naturally, I stood boldly at...

Today's contest won't make you jumpy: Win a physical prize pack and digital key for survival horror game Darkwood! Game developers and publishers, take note: I am 100% more likely to do a contest for a game if there are physical prizes invo...

Get to work on winning a Steam copy of Yuppie Psycho in today's contest! This one eluded my weekly roundup of weird games, but let me assure you it belongs there. There's nothing I love more than a strange setup that almost immediately goes...

Over on that social media hive of activity, Twitter, publisher Bandai Namco has very proudly announced that the Tales series of RPGs has hit an impressive milestone of over 20 million worldwide sales.The original title in this long-running ...

Four new titles have been inducted to the World Video Game Hall of Fame for 2019, which is hosted at the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, NY. The four new entries are Mortal Kombat, Super Mario Kart, Colossal Cave Adventure and,...

Sony has announced the next batch of free games for PlayStation Plus subscribers and the selection is pretty decent. Overcooked and What Remains of Edith Finch will be available next Tuesday, May 7, for download from the PlayStation Store....

Speaking with Variety, a Microsoft spokesperson has announced that Minecraft creator Markus Persson - better known by pseudonym "Notch," will not be in attendance at an upcoming event celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the globally popu...

Cyan's latest adventure title, Firmament, has hit its Kickstarter goal for funding. Coming in with a buzzer beater, the title was falling roughly half a million short of its $1,285,000 funding goal until a tremendous final stretch pushed it...

The critically acclaimed adventure title Gone Home is free over on the Humble Bundle store right now. Available until May 3, users will be able to nab a DRM-free copy for PC by heading over to the store and downloading it. No code is provid...

Nintendo has released a trailer for mobile title Fire Emblem Heroes, revealing that a new Legendary Hero, Alm, will be headed to the game's roster tomorrow, just in time for you to indulge in a spot of weekend warfare.Alm, known here as "Th...

Get ready for today's contest and win a Switch copy of Hob: The Definitive Edition! I consider the PS2 days to be the definitive era for platformers. They were fun and vibrant and colorful, and weren't afraid to have cartoonish and distinct...

It's time for Lara Croft to take the trip back home to Croft Manor, no doubt haunted by the screams of a thousand people she axed in the face during her latest adventure Shadow of the Tomb Raider.Still, there is time for just one more jaunt...