Latest articles by Mollie Taylor
From Cyberpunk 2077 to The Witcher 3: Why videogame music matters, told by some of the best composers in the indsutry
From Disco Elysium to The Witcher, how does music contribute to our experience playing?
Writing one of Final Fantasy 14's sauciest songs required its lyricist to consult the tomes—Wikipedia's incredibly thorough BDSM page
⛓️🖤 All for the research, amirite?
Cozy games in May: Our release calendar and staff picks
Cozy calendar From Paralives to Thrifty Business, this month is going to be all about life sims and shop sims in the cozy game corner.
As Steam player counts continue to dominate conversations around multiple games, it turns out 45% of you don't actually care that much for the metric
news Sometimes ignorance is bliss.
Final Fantasy 14's Unreal trials are such a brilliant way to reintroduce old fights for new players and I wish we saw more of this reinvigoration
Run it back Old new ideas.
Bad news, that adorable backpack that mysteriously appeared in Final Fantasy 14 players' inventories isn't meant to be there
news Yoshi-P is coming for your Senor Otter pack.
As if Final Fantasy 14's free trial wasn't already generous enough, it now includes the best expansion in the entire game
news RIDING HOOOOOOME.
It's hard to say whether Final Fantasy 14's new combat will be a win or a flop, but I'm just happy to see the developer trying something new
a new fight Evercold feels like it's going to be an expansion of evolution and experimentation.
I can't believe it, a gacha game has finally broken the curse of perpetually god-awful rhythm minigames
Victorious Much better than its disastrous first attempt.
Tekken players have spent years asking for FF7's Tifa only for rumours to suggest she's been poached by the biggest competition
news Capcom has the chance to do the funniest thing ever here.
Final Fantasy 14's patch notes sneak-peek is Square Enix's classic formula of exciting quality-of-life changes and weirdly archaic systems
news We're still navigatin' that spaghetti code, huh?
There's now a Wordle-like for Final Fantasy 14 players and it's putting my raid-addled mind to the test
news Clock Spots asks: how much do you actually know about FF14?
The latest Crimson Desert patch is finally the reason I needed to turn my once-useless house into a cosy haven
news Tree damage is nerfed, but pet birds!
Combing through a house full of a dead loved one's possessions to figure out who they were feels like the anti-Unpacking
A Storied Life: Tabitha is a thoughtful insight into learning more about the people we love.
Street Fighter 6 somehow patched its incest storyline to make it even shadier than it originally was
news From openly incestuous to indirectly incestuous.
Crimson Desert's story is nonsensical and barely-there, but Kliff's mocap actor reckons 'what it lacks in narrative it more than makes up for in other aspects'
news And the extra lore is out there if you're willing to do a bit of reading.
Crimson Desert is so packed with weird systems and quirks that it can be a struggle to remember them all—which is why we've made a quiz about everything from the stock market to space
ALL THE THINGS Did you even make it out of Hernand yet to know these?
What is the best licensed music to make its way into videogames?
At least one of you has to say Snoop Dogg's version of Riders on the Storm.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised that 43% of you care the most about a game's world when it comes to RPGs
Top priorities Excellence in exploration.
Fable's cinematics are getting a helping hand from Blizzard's stellar cinematic team, Xbox boss says
news Ooh, that's gonna be good.
Pirate survival Windrose sees 500,000 mateys buy the game as Steam reviews are 'Very Positive'
news Aaarrrgh, that's a good start.
Crimson Desert has managed to hit 5 million sales in its first month as its constant patches and improvements are successfully drawing in new players
That's gotta be a lotta silver.
It's been a month since release and I'm still not sure if Pearl Abyss knows what it wants Crimson Desert to be
Them changes The playerbase says jump, and Pearl Abyss says how high.
