Oh God: This Week’s Steam Oddities (Week 22) In This Week’s Steam Oddities, Alex doesn’t just spotlight games that make you question Valve’s…
Second Life Was Never Just a Freak Show—I Visited My Old Online Self More than 15 years ago, I spent quite a while in Second Life. My avatar…
What the Concords of This World Can Learn from Blindfire Since May 7, the ill-fated online PvP shooter Blindfire has been free to play—and barely…
Oh God: This Week’s Steam Oddities (Week 17) In This Week’s Steam Oddities, Alex doesn’t just showcase games that make you question Valve’s…
New on My Wishlist: Pirate Commander In the "New on My Wishlist" series, I spotlight games from my personal wishlist. And…
AI Will Take Over Gaming — And That’s Good News for Gamers Ubisoft is setting up Creative Houses, EA is hooking up with Stability AI, and Sony…
New on My Wishlist: Out Fishing In the "New on My Wishlist" series, I introduce games from my personal wishlist. And…
Broken Dagger & AI: More Transparency, Please — but Maybe Fewer Witch Hunts, Too Broken Dagger, an RPG inspired by The Elder Scrolls 2: Daggerfall, now has a Steam…
70 Bucks for a Game? Kweepa’s Ultima Underworld Remaster Would Be Worth It to Me Yes, professional studios can do amazing work. But the real heroes, to me, are modders…
No Summer Drought Here: May’s Game Highlights Deserve Way More Attention May is oddly stacked with great game releases this year—at least once you step away…
6 of the Best Dating Sims Coming Soon (2026) The dating sim genre is famously packed with visual novels from East Asia. But there…
Here Are 6 of the Best AI-Powered Games in 2026 Even now, AI can already make a few gamer dreams come true—like authentic conversations with…
Mainstream Outside has launched — and here’s what I think games journalism should be Is video game journalism actually journalism? Depends who you ask. If you go by the…
Patch Notes from Real Life: Launching Next to the Oxygen Machine Devlogs usually contain progress updates and exhausting marketing fluff. But every now and then, one…