The business and culture of video games, from a reporter with 20 years on the beat.
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September’s packed schedule
Onimusha Way of the Sword. Screenshot: Capcom.
The most extraordinary element of yesterday’s big PlayStation showcase wasn’t the show-closing reveal of a new, undated God of War game featuring the post-death exploits of Faye, the wife of...
PlayStation could use more hits, amid first-party game sales decline
What will tomorrow bring?
Each year since 2020, Sony has sold millions of fewer copies of the games it has developed and/or published for its PlayStation consoles—until a small uptick in the past year—according to data released by Sony and...
News round-up: Colorado DLC gaming veto, Fable delay, Switch 2 surge in Japan and an unexpected GameSpot merger
Colorado state flag, via Wikipedia
Note: Thanks to a holiday-shortened work week and the need to get the weekend going (for me and for you!), this is an all-round-up edition of Game File. I’ll be back next week with some original stories–a...
A fantasy game that is all too real
A review of Dosa Divas, a role-playing game about what it means to do good, from a studio trying to do things right. Says its director: “For us, a sort of success [is whether we can] make another.”
“There was a Sri Lankan place, not many i...
31 hours with the spit-shined Mina the Hollower (and 34 with the four games that came before it)
A review of a stunning new Super Nintendo-style epic made by a studio that keeps getting better
To truly appreciate Mina The Hollower, an extraordinary new throwback of a game, I sent myself to Yacht Club University.
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