I'm writing this a couple of days after the release of No Man's Sky. The incandescent vapour of Internet opinion is coalescing around a cooling core of critical consensus. I imagine that by the time ...

When we talk about video games, we often do so in the context of verbs. It’s an obvious knock-on effect of humanity inventing its first truly interactive artform: To engage meaningfully with a game, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It’s hard to imagine what adventure games looked like before Maniac Mansion, although that’s ...