Jackal

Adventure gamers are no strangers to the endless debates over genre definitions, but it’s rare that we ask the even more fundamental question, “What is a game?” Dear Esther, from developer thechineseroom and level designer Robert Briscoe, is an extraordinarily strange, brave, and above all beautiful experience. Strange because it is a bizarre work of […]

Can a video game make you cry? I’m always surprised by this question, because I know the answer is yes. In fact, games make me cry fairly regularly—and I like it that way. As a fan of emotionally charged stories, I feel cheated if a dramatic game doesn’t make me sniffle a bit during its […]