Critical Paths

CRITICAL PATHS Beware the most self-destructive words in narrative.

CRITICAL PATHS It can take longer than a game does to finish to realise what made it great.

Critical Paths A few of the ways games often squander their exciting debut

Critical Paths Why it rarely feels good to be bad.

CRITICAL PATHS "He readies the ball and he lets it go, lets it go, and now we've done that gag..."

Critical Paths A Valentine's look at the quest for love on both sides of the screen.

Critical Paths Playing jumprope on the line between 'funny' and 'hateful'.

CRITICAL PATHS Once more we dance a Grim Fandango.

CRITICAL PATHS It takes more than a word to make us stop thinking of something as crapwork.

Critical Paths On watching a series discover itself before our very eyes.

Critical Paths How making everyone a hero arguably saved and ruined MMOs

CRITICAL PATHS What are you playing this holiday? Richard felt the urge to go back to an old disappointment.

Critical Paths A reminder from Dead State that a stranger in the wilderness can be your best friend.

Critical Paths This week... singing and dancing!

Critical Paths Games increasingly struggle to make choices matter, but which ones count?

Critical Paths As Shroud of the Avatar hits early access, a look back at his/her many accomplishments

Critical Paths The art of feeling special, even in an MMO sized crowd

Best of Why we should all be grateful that Bioware cares about what it does.

Critical Paths Her name is Marta Louise Velasquez. Pray you never have her on your wing.