What are the qualities of a good video game remake? Once upon a time, it was enough for a remake to simply update something with modern graphics. But as the games industry has evolved, so have tastes ...

Sometimes, time off is a good thing for a video game franchise. Having frequent releases, which are often early, is not really a good thing, even for the biggest developers and publishers. Good games ...

Ariel Messman-Rucker is an Oakland-born journalist who now calls the Pacific Northwest her home. When she’s not writing about politics and queer pop culture, she can be found reading, hiking, or ...

Since the earliest days of gaming, music has helped create a sense of immersion and worldbuilding. From composer Koji Kondo’s Super Mario Bros. theme, to the infectious earworm of Tetris’ “Korobeiniki ...

Tom Bowen is a senior editor who loves adventure games and RPGs. He's been playing video games for several decades now and writing about them professionally since 2020. Although he dabbles in news and ...

Teens compete in a video game tournament at the Portland Public Library in Maine in 2018. (Ben McCanna/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images) How we did this Pew Research Center conducted this ...

Since the fall of the first block of Tetris, people have worried about the addictive nature of video games. But there’s a reason why they are so good at capturing our attention. Research from UC ...

Playing video games has numerous benefits for your mental health. Video games can help you relieve stress and get your mind going. Some benefits include: Mental stimulation. Video games often make you ...

The Game Awards is almost here, and with it comes the announcement of many future video games that gamers will be intrigued about. Or, we hope they’ll be good enough announcements to be intrigued ...

2023 proved to be a blockbuster year for video games. Hotly anticipated platform titles debuted on a monthly, and sometimes biweekly, basis, consuming video gamers' time (and the contents of their ...

Today is officially the last day of Prime Big Deal Days, Amazon’s October Prime Day sales event, with just a few hours left until the sales end tonight. Hundreds of thousands of products are deeply ...