Latest articles by Jasmine Gould-Wilson
"We've learned to love and trust the process": How Hades 2 built on Supergiant's Early Access legacy to deliver the best roguelike of 2025
Year in Review Year in Review 2025 | True dev-otion
How to get Cinderella in Disney Dreamlight Valley
Guide To get Cinderella in Dreamlight Valley, the Fairy Godmother needs to send you a letter about a glass slipper in the Plaza first
I wrestled this 30kg gaming chair up 4 flights of stairs in the hopes of fixing my posture and my heavy-lifting paid off
Review Don't be put off by the huge, heavy box – the Noblechairs Legend is a veritable throne of a gaming chair.
10 predictions for The Game Awards 2025: Half-Life 3, Resident Evil Requiem, and more on Steam Machine please and thank you
Feature Opinion | Analyzing all the rumors ahead of The Game Awards 2025
"We are hard to beat": 9 months since Assassin's Creed Shadows, its associate director looks back on what makes this RPG the best in series history
Year in Review Year in Review 2025 | Ubisoft Quebec's Simon Lemay-Comtois on the intersection between Shadows, Syndicate, and the series' wide-open future
"The real reward in our heart is the emotional response": As Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 continues its GOTY domination, the devs and actors are still reeling from its success
Interview Year in Review 2025 | The JRPG wasn't supposed to be "big," it was supposed to be "cool" – and 7 months later, it's officially both
Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era's huge demo feels like Early-Early Access because its strategy champion devs are constantly working off your feedback: "The philosophy here is transparency"
Interview | "We are listening to everything. We're reading everything."
I'm usually a Dungeon disciple in Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era, but after 2 hours with the latest build, I'm feeling oddly fond of insects
Big Preview | My first taster of new factions Hive and Sylvan left me itching for more, and not just because of the bugs
2 years since Baldur's Gate 3 sicced me on real-life D&D, my favorite video games of 2025 prove I've become truly obsessed
Opinion Opinion | I cannot escape Strahd in 2025 and that's fine by me
Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is a "great pleasure" and a "great responsibility" for its superfan CEO, and he's governed by one guiding principle: "Heroes is for everyone"
The Big Preview | Unfrozen's Denis Fedorov on how his team of strategy game enthusiasts are breathing new life into the iconic franchise
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's record-high nominations at The Game Awards proves what I've been saying for the past 8 months
Opinion Opinion | When it comes to balancing quirk and familiarity, Clair Obscur does it best
My most-wanted game of 2026 stars Shadowheart from Baldur's Gate 3 as a modern Arthurian knight with deadly Devil May Cry combat moves, and I swear it's going to be huge
Opinion Opinion | Tides of Annihilation looks poised for success – and it doesn't even have a release date
In a curious crossover of stuff I love, The Outer Worlds 2 improves one of Avowed's jankiest features – and the only game I can compare it to isn't even an RPG
Opinion Now Playing | Finally, a third-person mode in a first-person game that doesn't feel broken
N7 Day 2025 could be hinting that Mass Effect 5 will make a specific Mass Effect 3 ending canon, but I can't tell which one
Opinion Opinion | Is BioWare being BioWare again or is this confirmation of a canonically cured genophage in Mass Effect 5?
Survival horror meets Squid Game in this chilling Steam demo that I've not been able to stop thinking about
Preview Preview | Name of the Will is scariest in its quietest, most harrowing moments
I couldn't hack Marvel Rivals, but Marvel Snap taught me more about PvP etiquette in 6 months than any game has before it
Opinion Opinion | In the battle of the F2P Marvel games, Snap reigns victorious
No, we don't need Red Dead Redemption 3, we need to learn that too much of a good thing will ultimately ruin it
Opinion Opinion | I'd prefer to be left wanting more than wishing something never existed
I was one of the first to see Hades 2's true ending, and I don't know how I feel about Supergiant retconning the whole thing
Now Playing Now Playing | Lack of belief in its own story, or a stroke of metagaming brilliance?
The best thing about survival horror is how cannibalistic it is, and Bloober Team is living proof of why it works so well in this subgenre
Opinion Opinion | Cronos: The New Dawn isn't trying to be "Dead Space at home", but it shows why all good survival horror games have a taste of one another
As a Disney kid who grew up on survival horror, Bye Sweet Carole is the final girl princess game I never knew I needed – and it's taken over my entire Halloween
Now Playing Now Playing | More like Disney Nightmare Valley (in a very good way)
"We experiment a lot, and now we're in the era of reaping the fruits": From Silent Hill 2 to Cronos: The New Dawn, here's how Bloober Team gilded its survival horror rep
Interview Interview | Bloober Team delves into the most terrifying of Halloween tricks and treats: its own success story
I spent 507 days obsessed with playing Hades 2, so I'm revisiting the first roguelike to decide which is my actual favorite
Now Playing | Zagreus, how I've missed you
I'm convinced all roads lead back to Baldur's Gate 3, as Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era has inspired my first Paladin run in the RPG
Now Playing Now Playing | Oath of Vengeance is basically the same as a hero, minus the dragons – right?
