I first played Alone in the Dark on a sticky summer night in 1993, sitting in my friend Kevin’s basement where the family computer had been banished due to his dad’s complaints about the space it took up in the home office. This was back when a PC was a serious investment, a beige monolith with a 486 processor and a whopping 8MB of RAM that his parents had purchased “for school work,” a noble…
Watching Fallout’s sixth episode last night felt like that moment in Fallout 3 when you first emerge from Vault 101—disorienting,…
I played the Left Behind DLC on a rainy Sunday in February 2014, a few months after finishing the main…
The first time I played Minecraft, I thought it was the ugliest game I’d ever seen. It was 2010, and…
I’ve always been a video game guy. From the moment my dad brought home that NES in ’85, I’ve had…
The year was 1999, and I was slouched on my friend Mark’s basement couch, watching him play some new skateboarding…
There are certain gaming experiences that burn themselves into your memory—moments so intense that your palms sweat just thinking about…
If episode one of Amazon’s Fallout series was about establishing this world for newcomers while throwing nostalgic nods to us…
Last night I watched Fallout’s seventh episode with the same anxious energy I feel when I’m down to my last…
There’s something uniquely satisfying about championing the underdog. Maybe that’s why, nestled between my PlayStation 5 and Switch in my…
