12/19/22The 15 best games of 2022From mobile Marvels to indie darlings to one very Elden Ring, we run down the 15 best video games of 2022ByAlexander Chatziioannou, Sam Barsanti, Grace Benfell, Jen Lennon, Reid McCarter, and William HughesPublishedDecember 19, 2022
10/28/22Ranking Resident Evil: The lows and highs of gaming's greatest horror franchiseWhich zombie-slaying masterpiece will reign supreme in our decades-long tour of the Resident Evil franchise?ByWilliam Hughes, Sam Barsanti, Grace Benfell, Reid McCarter, Alexander Chatziioannou, and Mike RougeauUpdatedMarch 25, 2023
8/8/22Fire and remember: 23 great unorthodox weapons in video gamesFrom exploding golf balls to bionic arms to the musical stylings of Disturbed, here are awesome video game weapons…ByWilliam Hughes, Sam Barsanti, Samantha Nelson, Alexander Chatziioannou, and Grace BenfellPublishedAugust 8, 2022
6/29/22The 10 best games of 2022 (so far)Elden Ring, The Quarry, and all the other titles we love that rolled out during the first half of this yearByWilliam Hughes, Sam Barsanti, Alexander Chatziioannou, Mike Rougeau, and Grace BenfellPublishedJune 29, 2022
1/14/22The 11 most anticipated video games of 2022From God Of War to an adorable, drone-piloting kitty cat, here are the games we can't wait to play this yearByWilliam Hughes, Sam Barsanti, Reid McCarter, Liz Arcury, and Alexander ChatziioannouPublishedJanuary 14, 2022
12/14/21The 17 best games of 2021Sable, Hitman, Bowser’s Fury, and more fill out our list of the best video games of 2021ByWilliam Hughes, Sam Barsanti, Justin Carter, Alexander Chatziioannou, Reid McCarter, and Liz ArcuryPublishedDecember 14, 2021
10/28/21Some of the best horror games of 2021 lurk far off the beaten pathVHS visuals, pizza deliveries gone wrong, and the ghost of Michael Jackson haunt our guide to the indie horror gems…ByAlexander ChatziioannouPublishedOctober 28, 2021
7/9/21The best games of 2021 so farResident Evil: Village, Bowser's Fury, Hitman 3, and more fill out our list of the best games released in the first…ByWilliam Hughes, Sam Barsanti, Samantha Nelson, Alexander Chatziioannou, A.A. Dowd, and Liz ArcuryPublishedJuly 9, 2021
3/18/21In the original Resident Evil, nothing was scarier than the humble ink ribbonTwenty-five years after it burst onto the original PlayStation—dragging a whole host of undead imitators in its…ByAlexander ChatziioannouPublishedMarch 18, 2021
12/18/20The A.V. Club’s favorite games of 2020God, that was a weird one, huh?ByWilliam Hughes, Alex McLevy, Randall Colburn, Sam Barsanti, Shannon Miller, Alexander Chatziioannou, Angelica Cataldo, A.A. Dowd, and Samantha NelsonPublishedDecember 18, 2020
7/10/20The best games of 2020 so farIt feels fair to say that few spans of time in recent memory have called for a good distraction more desperately…ByWilliam Hughes, Shannon Miller, Joey Clift, A.A. Dowd, Alexander Chatziioannou, Randall Colburn, Sam Barsanti, and Samantha NelsonPublishedJuly 10, 2020
3/18/20Game over, man: How Aliens—not Alien—shaped three decades of gaming historyAlthough the Alien franchise has cast a long and lingering shadow over the world of video games, it was never the…ByAlexander ChatziioannouPublishedMarch 18, 2020
12/21/192019: The year of cosmic horror gamesIsn’t it strange that a branch of fiction should thrive so fully when its most prominent emissary has been widely…ByAlexander ChatziioannouPublishedDecember 21, 2019
9/17/19In a 1987 video game, Chernobyl’s nuclear reactor was nearly impossible to blow upAs Game Of Thrones concluded earlier this year, not with the bang of long-awaited confrontations, but the protracted…ByAlexander ChatziioannouPublishedSeptember 17, 2019