Rob Zacny
‘The Callisto Protocol’ Is Not the Second Coming of ‘Dead Space’
A video game set in space, where everything has gone wrong, should rule. This one doesn’t.
'Midnight Suns' Is Less Marvel XCOM and More Marvel Fire Emblem
Whether that's a good thing depends on whether you want a game about battle tactics or a game about superhero relationships.
A Medieval Murder Mystery Is Painted on History’s Canvas in ‘Pentiment’
A historical whodunnit sets the stage for one of the year's best and most beautiful games.
‘The Last of Us’ Isn't Very Old, But It's Already Worth Revisiting
Regardless of how one feels about charging $70 for an update to a game from 2013, 'The Last of Us' remains an utterly compelling ride.
‘Total War: Warhammer 3’ Has Everything You Want, and Some Old Flaws You Don't
I propose to move immediately off these works.
Is ‘Bear and Breakfast’ a Cute Management Sim or a Slow Death?
Adorable. Silly. Kind of excruciating.
How Fernando Alonso and Oscar Piastri Exploded the F1 Driver Market
How the silly season politics of Aston Martin, Alpine, and McLaren explain why a new era is arriving for race driver contracts.
A Racing Wheel Is the Best Way to Never Play Racing Games
Nothing lets a sim racing game communicate with the player like a force feedback wheel, and what mine is telling me is to play with a controller.
F1 Is a Strategy Game, and Ferrari Are Bad at It
Ferrari and Charles Leclerc lost a huge lead to Max Verstappen and Red Bull thanks to awful race strategy.
Activision Blizzard Is Acting Like a Company That’s Scared of a Union
Raven Software’s QA team has formed a union, a small step that may tell us a lot about the future of the video game industry.
Warhammer 40K Now Has Its Own Master-Crafted Tactics Game
Lots of games make Space Marines cool, 'Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters' does something harder: it actually makes them powerful.
Why 'Sid Meier's Gettysburg' Stopped Making Sense
It's a masterpiece of intuitive and elegant design based on a popular history that stopped being so popular, and no longer feels so important.