We’re watching you. That’s the message our political and corporate overlords send us every day, whether it’s here in the UK with Prime Minister Theresa May’s Snooper’s Charter, increased sharing of personal information by the National Security Agency in the US, or governments in general demanding to know exactly how many kitten videos you liked on Facebook. Even…

Disclaimer: This preview is based on an Early Access version of We Happy Few, not the finished product. An access code was provided by the publisher. Not since the original Bioshock have I been as excited about a game as I was about We Happy Few, the retrofuturistic open-world survival game from indie studio Compulsion Games. Like Bioshock, it is set…

Board games are undergoing a Renaissance right now. The time when roll-and-move games ruled the roost, your progress dictated by the luck of the dice, has gone. Many modern board games test you on your ability to lie and manipulate, to spot the lies and manipulations of others, to bluff, bluster, and seize your opportunities…

It’s been three days, but I’m still trying to puzzle out the ending to Inside. For those not in the know, Inside is Danish developer Playdead’s follow-up to their 2010 indie game hit, Limbo. Like Limbo, Inside is a 2-D puzzle platformer with more than a hint of Scandinavian darkness; in both games, a young boy must progress through a sinister, monochrome world,…