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Jump scares are often considered cheap scares, and to some extent that reputation is justified. I've played games and seen films where the scares are exhausting rather than exciting, and they're not much more sophisticated than someone…

Dirt, dust, and fingerprint smudges aren't likely to do any long-term damage to your gaming monitor (opens in new tab), but they still suck. Why pay all that money for a nice screen only to have the visual fidelity brought down by smudges…

For the first time since December 2021, I played Halo Infinite last week—and somehow, despite loving and playing Halo on-and-off for 20 years, I was still shocked by how much fun I had. The springy movement, the rhythm of shield-stripping…

The best indie games might be the ones that fill gaps the big-budget beefy-boys of the videogame industry leave fallow, the kind of games that explore genres and styles that have fallen out of fashion because someone in marketing said they…

Instead of doing something useful with our time, we've ranked all the Geralts we could think of. You know: Witcher 3 Geralt, book Geralt, Polish TV series Geralt, Tub Geralt—the Geralts. It's not worth thinking too much about why we…