A decade after the release of Firewatch, two of its developers share what they attempted to achieve with their landmark game.

Video game developers, designers, and scholars have devoted a substantial amount of time to understanding immersion—the psychological state in which players feel present within the game world—and ...

First-person action games are tricky. There's an easy flow to first-person shooters that makes swinging a gun around and aiming down the sights feel natural. The same isn't always the case with ...

Springs, Eternal is a lo-fi first-person story exploration game that takes place at a mysterious hot springs in the dead of night, its evocative visual style recalling the dithered and pixelated ...

Beat the Devil at his own game. A folk horror card battler with beautiful stylized art, animated figurines, dazzling effects, haunted sound and music, and an original first-person narrative set in the ...

Indie game developer Haotang Technology and publisher 4Divinity have announced a brand-new WWII title they're calling The Defiant. This is a narrative first-person shooter title where you are thrown ...

An HR advisor with a background in recruitment and HRIS functions, with a passion for video games and writing. Oliver grew up playing Call of Duty with his siblings and has garnered 1000s of hours ...

Publisher Serenity Forge and developer CINNADEV have announced cozy narrative farming simulation game Delphinium for Xbox Series and PC (Steam, Microsoft Store). It will launch in 2027.

Morgan Pinder is a writer at GameRant and a graduate researcher at Deakin University in Australia. Their research interests are in video games, environmentalism and gothic media. Morgan’s most recent ...