Booker DeWitt and the Debt That Follows You Across Every Version of Yourself
If you could become a completely different person — new name, new city, new choices, no memory of what you'd done — would that actually settle the debt, or would…
What Video Games Teach Us About Failure (And Why We Keep Choosing to Try Again)
Most stories treat failure as something to avoid, correct, or overcome on the way to a better outcome. Video games, uniquely among storytelling mediums, often treat failure as something to…
Why Nobody Finishes Their Games Anymore: The Backlog Epidemic, Explained
Open almost any Steam library older than a couple of years and you'll find the same quiet graveyard: dozens, sometimes hundreds, of games sitting at zero hours played. Not abandoned…
Aloy and the Burden of Being Someone Else’s Second Chance
What do you owe a person you never met, if your entire existence was engineered to finish what they started? That question sits underneath everything Aloy does across Horizon Zero…
What Spiritfarer Taught Me About Saying Goodbye (Not Getting Over It)
What if taking care of someone isn’t the opposite of losing them, but the actual shape that love takes right up until the moment you do? That question sat with…
AI Companions Are Everywhere in Gaming Now What Does That Say About Us?
Somewhere between the last major console generation and this one, a strange thing happened: video game companies stopped treating "talking to a character" as a scripted event and started treating…