The Sweet Escape Of 'Sayonara Wild Hearts,' Where Pop Music Is Recovery If past generations saw their wanderlust reflected in Alice peering down a rabbit hole or Luke Skywalker staring down a sunset, the COVID-era equivalent will almost certainly involve a hero gazing into a screen: With most of the U.S. still advised to stay home as much as possible, …
Video games, to the uninitiated, can be intimidating. ‘Telling Lies’ If you can use a search engine, you can likely navigate Sam Barlow’s “Her Story” and the more recent “Telling Lies.” The former is a sort of remixed police procedural. “Neo Cab,” available for home computers, the Nintendo Switch and Apple’s $4.99 Apple Arcade subscription service, uses a near-future setting …
Once the realm of teenage boys and self-identified nerds, video games truly came into themselves as a mature art form in the 2010s. The best games of the past year encompass a variety of genres, and include a reimagined classic Soviet arcade game, an adventure game about a lovelorn woman, and a surreal existential drama. Death Stranding “Death Stranding” is …
The iPhone and its App Store changed gaming. It’s the kind of game the App Store excels at, which is to say that despite some corny jokes and a light story, it’s still firmly in the “Candy Crush” oeuvre. Now Apple Arcade acknowledges what’s long been one of the game industry’s most stubborn, less becoming traits: a lack of willingness …
