Earlier this week, Silent Hill 2 finally emerged from the fog of its development. A remake of the original 2001 game of the same name by Polish developer Bloober Team (Layers of Fear, The Medium), Silent Hill 2 is easily the most anticipated and ambitious horror game of 2024, a modern take on one of the most iconic and influential survival...

The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch | Photo: Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images Metaphor: ReFantazio is not a horror game — it’s a fantasy RPG with a story that keeps getting better as it goes along and a combat system that’s complex and satisfying. But whenever I run into the “humans,” monsters whose visual design look nothing...

The comedy streaming service Dropout is breaking ground in a highly competitive genre of television: the cooking competition show. Its new series, Gastronauts, brings Dropout’s comedic talent and penchant for zany antics to the well-worn genre with something just a little less cutthroat than you’ll see on other cooking shows. Hosted by...

Tomb Raider fans, bless them, spend a lot of time wondering how the series all syncs up. If the Lara Croft we saw in the original ’90s games is the same one as the rougher-around-the-edges Lara from the Survivor trilogy, then what happened in between to have it all make sense?  Luckily, answers appear on the horizon. Tomb Raider developer...

Netflix is ushering in the fall season with a slate of great additions this October, including quite a few thrillers. Along with the highly anticipated sequel to Netflix’s gnarly thriller The Platform, the streamer also added quite a few older thrillers, including a few greats from the 2000s and a few that go even further back than that....

There’s been a slight sense of anticlimax after the release of The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom. It’s a very good game, of course, but perhaps a few steps shy of the greatness we expect of the series. Its new, indirect gameplay style, with Zelda conjuring echoes of objects and monsters to solve puzzles and win battles, asks quite a lot...