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Lewis Gordon is a freelance writer who covers video games. His writing has also appeared on The Ringer and The Verge.

  1. best of 2024
    The Best Video Games of 2024 (So Far)A dragon-slaying epic, puzzles that might infiltrate your dreams, and a thrilling game of hide-and-seek.
  2. summer preview 2024
    9 Video Games We Can’t Wait to Play This SummerThe typically slower summer months nonetheless look set to deliver.
  3. video game review
    If A24 Made a Video Game, It Would Look a Lot Like IndikaDreamy vibes? A protagonist wrestling with doubt? An almost feverish commitment to immersion? Check, check, check.
  4. game review
    The Platonic Ideal of Fantasy AdventureDragon’s Dogma 2 delivers a quirky, evocative open world straight out of a sword-and-sorcery novel.
  5. video game review
    Going Through It in Final Fantasy VII RebirthThe open world of Cloud Strife & Co. is weirdly relatable.
  6. featurettes
    Demystifying Game Design in The Last of Us Part 2 RemasteredBehind-the-scenes features give a fascinating, if incomplete, look behind Naughty Dog’s curtain.
  7. welcome to vice city
    Will Grand Theft Auto 6 Bring Catharsis?New protagonist Lucia seems well suited to express the joy of wanton destruction.
  8. video game review
    The Weirdest Blockbuster Video Game Ever MadeAlan Wake 2, the sequel to Remedy Entertainment’s cult hit, is equal parts esoteric, daring, and moving.
  9. interactive entertainment
    ‘WTF Is Silent Hill: Ascension?’The horror video-game franchise is back with an “interactive streaming series.” Its creators think it could be the future of entertainment.
  10. vulture lists
    The 100 Hardest Video-Game Levels of All TimeDizzying shooters, agonizing puzzles, and water stages (ugh) that raise the question: Continue?
  11. video games
    Hogwarts Legacy Is J.K. Rowling’s Legacy, Summed Up in a Dud of a GameThe feverishly anticipated Harry Potter video game can’t muster the fantasy escapism it so desperately wants.
  12. video games
    The Callisto Protocol Ups the IckThe spiritual successor to the survival-horror classic Dead Space doesn’t let the dread build.
  13. video game review
    Kratos’s Contradictions Are Amplified in God of War RagnarökThe muscleman returns for another buccaneering (but conflicted) take on fantasy violence.
  14. hacks
    Everything We Know About the Rockstar Games Grand Theft Auto 6 LeakA hacker claims to have the source code for what is perhaps the most anticipated game in history.
  15. video games
    Whatever Happened to Marissa Marcel?Solve an unsettling Hollywood mystery in Sam Barlow’s new video game, Immortality.
  16. video game review
    Stray Takes a Cat’s Eye View of Cyberpunk DystopiaThe new perspective is adorable, but only scratches the surface.
  17. video games
    The ‘Petroleum Blues’ of NorcoTribeca’s first Games Award winner is a point-and-click gothic adventure.
  18. video games
    Sifu Channels Great Martial-Arts Movies Into a Pretty Good Beat-’Em-Up GameBut it can’t quite match up to its influences.
  19. video games
    An Influx of Time-Loop Video Games Highlight Gaming’s Inescapable Meta LoopWhat do Deathloop, Twelve Minutes, and Outer Wilds have to say about a medium reliant on win-fail states?