Live-service games have made developers the stewards of preservation for the most popular games of all time. How does this keep happening, and is it a good thing?

Seeing as we’re a little over halfway through the year, I figured that now would be as good a time as any to open up my notes app and break down some of the list that I have titled, “GOOD GAMES YOU PLAYED IN 2023.”

The year 2022 was amazing for Film, Television, and Games. These are the things that stuck with me the most.

Interrogating what it means for a show like this to come from the Disney machine.

For a game that stands so alone in its ambitions to show me something I’ve never seen before, I wish it would apply the same effort to telling me something new as well.

This was the worst year of our lives and intentionally or not, these six games defined it.

Marvel's Avengers is a good singleplayer experience trapped inside the body of a lackluster live service.

The ARMY may not be recruiting on Twitch anymore, but that doesn't mean the military has stopped trying anywhere else.

This game has been in development for three years, but that doesn’t change the environment or context which Ooblets is releasing into.