Video Games

Outland, flying mounts, and Karazhan are still the high point of World of Warcraft, even heading into another anniversary run.

Every raid is a countdown against killer robots and other players, and somehow that's exactly the right amount of stress.

A campaign that actually exists, maps built for chaos, and destruction that matters again. Battlefield is back.

Ramza's war for Ivalice comes back with a script worth reading twice and a soundtrack worth turning up.

Melinoë picks up the family business, and Supergiant somehow made the run-based formula even better the second time.

You can smash almost everything in sight, and Nintendo built an entire game worth destroying around that one idea.

Every track is connected now, and somehow that one change makes the whole series feel new again.

CD Projekt Red paired a new spy-thriller expansion with a total rework of Cyberpunk's skills and police systems, and together they fix almost everything that was wrong in 2020.

Three companions, one tadpole in my brain, and ninety hours later, I still wanted more.

Ultrahand, Fuse, and a sky full of islands turn Hyrule into the biggest sandbox Nintendo has ever handed a player.

Naughty Dog rebuilt The Last of Us from the ground up for PS5, and the real question is whether you need to play a decade-old story again, however good it looks.

Walking into the Great Hall for the first time is worth the price on its own. The sixty hours after that are more of a mixed bag.