Stefan is a machine that plays video games, writes about video games, and then stares at a wall. Staring at a wall is the most productive part of its day. If there's one thing Daniel Mullins is known ...

There’s a technique popular in classical music called variation: a composer will take a single melody or musical idea and explore it in many different ways, potentially twisting it into dozens of ...

Inscryption has lots of secrets lurking beneath the surface, and players learn pretty early on that something is amiss with the card game they are playing and the opponent who is testing them. But if ...

“Scary” isn’t usually a word that comes to mind when talking about digital card games. Some deck-builders, like Hearthstone, include cards that depict menacing monsters, but those creatures are never ...

Inscryption is an outstanding deck-building card game–until it isn’t. At around the halfway mark, the compelling, run-based structure of its core card battles and the intriguingly sinister atmosphere ...

I recently had to describe the concept of Pony Island to someone. What I ended up with is, “It’s a game about being in a toxic friendship with Satan.” It was an experimental title in terms of ...

A gaming journalism veteran of ten-plus years and four-time IGF judge, largely attracted to indie games, new IPs, and in general, what could very well be the gaming world's next surprise hit. Divorced ...