This indie sci-fi game is a lesson in resilience and resistance
Citizen Sleeper 2's android protagonist, in a scene from the game's trailer. Fellow Traveler hide caption toggle caption Fellow Traveler An abandoned, powerful spaceship hides somewhere in the Starward Belt. My contact Yu-Jin swears he can find it — I scrounge up a crew and zip to his coordinates, only to lose out to a
The best and biggest games of 2025 so far
Split Fiction (from left), Monster Hunter Wilds and Avowed. Hazelight Studios, Capcom, Obsidian Entertainment hide caption toggle caption Hazelight Studios, Capcom, Obsidian Entertainment While we await the Nintendo Switch 2 and the new slate of games it may bring this year, studios have cranked out surprising hits ranging from cooperative platformers to historical epics. NPR
January 6th … the board game?
Fight for America! is a new art installation about democracy that invites audiences to play a war game — battling over the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. J. Elon Goodman/the american vicarious hide caption toggle caption J. Elon Goodman/the american vicarious When we arrive on a cold night in January, we're told we're on
Indie developers showed off big ideas at this year’s Game Developers Conference
to a T (from left) and All Systems Dance. Annapurna Interactive, Mighty Yell hide caption toggle caption Annapurna Interactive, Mighty Yell As the video game industry descended on San Francisco for this year's Game Developers Conference, one thing was clear: some of gaming's biggest ideas are born from its smallest teams. At showcase events like
Assassin’s Creed Shadows is good, but not great. Is that enough?
Yasuke wields a long katana against foes in Assassin's Creed Shadows. Ubisoft hide caption toggle caption Ubisoft Assassin's Creed Shadows, out Thursday, is a good Assassin's Creed game. But "good" may not be good enough to save one of the industry's biggest companies. "It's dire times for Ubisoft," says Stephen Totilo, founder of the online
The video game industry at a crossroads
Enlarge this image Screenshot of gameplay in "Beatdown City Survivors" NuChallenger hide caption toggle caption NuChallenger Screenshot of gameplay in "Beatdown City Survivors" NuChallenger The video game industry is huge. Last year alone it generated an estimated $187 billion dollars in revenue. But it's also facing a host of serious issues: massive layoffs, the advent