James Pond, a classic fish-based 1990 platformer that spawned (I am not sorry) a few sequels is, decades later, getting not only a surprise new game in the series, but a rerelease of the originals as ...

For the better part of a year I was fascinated by a specific trackball that never seemed to materialize: Keychron’s Nape Pro. It is a unique and baffling object from a company not normally known for ...

The first time I wrote about the upcoming 1666: Amsterdam was when the game's reveal was found to be riddled with some absolutely dogshit AI-generated imagery. The second, and hopefully final, time is ...

Welcome back to The Work, a column about resistance in fiction. This month: The Ultimates (2024), by Deniz Camp, Juan Frigeri, et al. Is the superhero over, or are reports of their demise overstated?

If you haven’t been keeping up via weekly streams and a near-nonstop barrage of clips, Infowars—the Sandy Hook-denying conspiracy mill once headed up by Alex Jones—is now in the playfully nefarious ...

The following is an excerpt from CTRL: Essays on Video Games, a book published by The Lilliput Press and edited by Dean Fee. Chasing Lilacs, by Brenda Romero, is a personal history told through the ...

Today Xbox CEO Asha Sharma took a trip to Bethesda Game Studios in Rockville, Maryland. She was welcomed with open arms, of a sort. Those arms belonged to a giant inflatable version of Scabby, a rat ...

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The video game industry is in a state of flux, and that’s putting it lightly. Whatever emerges will necessarily look nothing like our current moment’s fissuring landmass, and perhaps that metaphor is ...

When Dark Souls II came out in 2014, I previewed and reviewed it for Kotaku. After I played the Looking Glass Knight demo at E3, I gushed to a friend that they had not fucked it up. This had been a ...

Emily Wilson is an accomplished academic and a renowned scholar in the field of Homeric epics. Her 2017 translation of The Odyssey, which shaped the text into iambic pentameter, has sold over a ...

I know we’ve covered some pretty big-picture stuff here so far on Hater Week, but for this gripe in particular I wanted to talk about something a bit more personal. Namely, how much I hate what my job ...