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vulture lists May 22, 2023

The 100 Hardest Video-Game Levels of All TimeDizzying shooters, agonizing puzzles, and water stages (ugh) that raise the question: Continue?
video games Feb. 23, 2023

Hogwarts Legacy Is J.K. Rowling’s Legacy, Summed Up in a Dud of a GameThe feverishly anticipated Harry Potter video game can’t muster the fantasy escapism it so desperately wants.

video games Dec. 2, 2022

The Callisto Protocol Ups the IckThe spiritual successor to the survival-horror classic Dead Space doesn’t let the dread build.
video game review Nov. 3, 2022

Kratos’s Contradictions Are Amplified in God of War RagnarökThe muscleman returns for another buccaneering (but conflicted) take on fantasy violence.
hacks Sept. 21, 2022

Everything We Know About the Rockstar Games Grand Theft Auto 6 LeakA hacker claims to have the source code for what is perhaps the most anticipated game in history.
video games Aug. 30, 2022

Whatever Happened to Marissa Marcel?Solve an unsettling Hollywood mystery in Sam Barlow’s new video game, Immortality.
video game review July 19, 2022

Stray Takes a Cat’s Eye View of Cyberpunk DystopiaThe new perspective is adorable, but only scratches the surface.
video games Mar. 24, 2022

The ‘Petroleum Blues’ of NorcoTribeca’s first Games Award winner is a point-and-click gothic adventure.
video games Feb. 10, 2022

Sifu Channels Great Martial-Arts Movies Into a Pretty Good Beat-’Em-Up GameBut it can’t quite match up to its influences.
video games Oct. 8, 2021

An Influx of Time-Loop Video Games Highlight Gaming’s Inescapable Meta LoopWhat do Deathloop, Twelve Minutes, and Outer Wilds have to say about a medium reliant on win-fail states?