Latest articles by Heather Wald
The Best Metroid Games of All Time
Best List Our ultimate ranking of the 10 best Metroid games to help you separate the wheat from the chaff
The 10 best games like Hollow Knight to play after you beat Silksong
Best List Silksong is now out in the wild, but these games like Hollow Knight will keep you busy after you play Team Cherry's latest
Cyber Monday retro deals 2025: console, handheld, and accessory discounts still around
Deals Cyber Monday retro deals are a rap, but there are still some console, handheld, and accessory offers to be had.
Black Friday gaming monitor deals 2025: display discounts still lingering
Deals Black Friday gaming monitor deals are still around, so you'll want to check out remaining display discounts for a last-minute bargain.
The best Cyber Monday Pokemon card deals that are still live
Deals Cyber Monday Pokemon card deals are almost over, so here's what we've found so far
This Cyber Monday deal takes Breaker special edition Xbox controllers down to a record low price, and I honestly can't decide which color to get
Deals Save $30 on special edition Xbox controllers this Cyber Monday, with record-low prices on Breaker gamepads.
Best Black Friday board game deals 2025, from new favorites to beloved classics
Deals Black Friday board game deals are bringing some fantastic discounts this year, here are all my top picks.
Black Friday iPad deals 2025: the best sales available now
Deals Black Friday iPad deals will return in November, and 2025's offerings already look exciting.
25 Best Xbox 360 games of all time
Best List Counting down the best Xbox 360 games of all time, from Black Flag to Dishonored
The 10 best Kirby games to adventure through
Best List With over 30 years of adventures, here's the 10 best Kirby games to play right now
The best Battle Royale games to play right now
Best List From Warzone to Apex Legends, these are the 10 best battle royale games that you can (and should) play today on PC, PS5, Xbox, and more
After 11 years and roughly 1500 hours, Dragon Age Inquisition is still the one BioWare RPG I replay the most
Opinion Opinion | I adore every Dragon Age game, but 11 years on, I started thinking about why it is that Inquisition is the one I come back to the most
The 10 best Halo games of all time
Best list From old-school classics to newer entries, the best Halo games show off some of Bungie's most exciting sci-fic shooter experiences
10 Games like Call of Duty that you should play now
Best List Looking for a new FPS? Then you'll want to check out our list of the best Call of Duty alternatives
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 – Everything you need to know about the new shooter
Guide Black Ops 7 is finally here and returns us to BO2's dark, tech-dominated future
Winter Burrow is like a very cozy, laid back Don't Starve with a bittersweet edge that tugs at the heartstrings
Indie Spotlight Indie Spotlight | Winter Burrow had me knitting clothes, baking pies, and contending with the cold
The best Zelda games of all time
Best List From Majora's Mask to Tears of the Kingdom, here are the 10 best Zelda games to play right now
The best JRPGs to play right now
Best List From Metaphor: ReFantazio to Dragon Quest 11, these are the best JRPGs you can play today
Stop everything, this vampire decorating sim screams dark romantasy and I can't wait to get my hands on it in 2026
Opinion Opinion | I'm locked into my romantasy era, and My Eerie Lair is firmly on my wishlist
The Outer Worlds 2 is an RPG that's as much about what you can't do as what you can: "Everybody is going to have a different experience, and they may not see everything, and that's okay"
Interview On the Radar | "We want the player to understand the breadth of what the game is, but also their place in that and where they could be going"
I love that the Flaw system calls me out on my RPG behavior in The Outer Worlds 2's and then asks me to double-down on it: "Because flaws are optional, we knew we could actually push them a little bit harder"
Interview On the Radar | "We're always trying to look at and observe the player doing something"
The Outer World 2's Incognito ship is your home base, but it also takes inspiration from the Millennium Falcon in Star Wars and reflects how "the player chooses to play"
Interview On the Radar | We explore the making of the Incognito ship in The Outer Worlds 2
Fallout leads debated making the original game 3D like Tomb Raider, but couldn't get "the amount of detail" they wanted – something Bethesda eventually achieved in Fallout 3
News It wasn't meant to be for Leonard Boyarsky
The Outer Worlds 2 director is already watching streamers create bad character builds, but that's part of the "true RPG" experience that "the Baldur's Gate 3s of the world" are helping bring back
News On the Radar | Game director Brandon Adler tells GR+ that fans are "relearning how RPGs" can offer real player choice
