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Theories are like opinions, and opinions are like… well. What I mean is that everyone has one, and they’re all over the Internet. What fan theory do you love? What “mind-blowing” theories have ever actually blown your mind? We’ve rounded up the ones that’ll completely change how you see a …

Metal Gear Glossary Big Boss, aka Naked Snake – Big Boss is the central figure and overarching villain of the Metal Gear series. He starts out as a good guy, working for the US government as a FOX operative, but a string of betrayals eventually lead him down a dark …

A legacy of virtuous missions 2017 marks the 30th anniversary of the Metal Gear series; a sprawling web of military operations, government conspiracies, bipedal nuclear battlemechs, and tactical espionage action. From its humble beginnings on the now-ancient Japanese MSX2 computer following a young, lone-wolf US soldier Solid Snake as he …

Sympathy for the devil? Not all video game antagonists are evil. Some bad guys have reasons for their behaviour so well-considered that they become massively sympathetic. Some even go as far as to make you feel like the real villain for stopping them in the first place. And in some …

The good guys don’t always win. Although video games often represent an idealised version of life, where good triumphs over evil and everyone ends up happy, there are several notable examples where the bad guys definitely ‘win’. I’m not talking about possible scenarios where the baddos come out on top–these …

After three years of teases and trailers, one of the first major Xbox One games ever revealed is finished. Remedy, the studio behind Max Payne and Alan Wake, has turned in yet another fascinatingly idiosyncratic spin on storytelling and shooters. How does this bizarre blending of time-manipulation, video game gunplay, …

Senran Kagura is an unlikely series. What looks on the surface like the most lascivious sort of anime game hides an involved story beneath its pervy veneer. A fair description: it’s about breasts, ninjas, interpersonal relationships, gender dysmorphia, gender identity, and friendship. Seriously. It’s that dynamic that’s earned the series …

Read ’em and weep Video games are distilled magic. They’re able to transport us to far off places and let us play inside the worlds their creators have imagined for us. But before all of this newfangled technology took over, there was another way to escape into the realm of …

25 years after Street Fighter 2 changed video games forever, the world warriors have returned on PlayStation 4 and PC in Street Fighter. Throughout the decades, the spinoffs, the tournaments, and bizarre subtitles, there’s been one constant throughout: Ryu. Vote for Street Fighter 5 in the Best Multiplayer Game, Competitive …

Gravity Rush is precisely the sort of game that develops a rabid cult following, the sort of game that launches a few dozen Tumblrs and disappears into obscurity because it’s trapped on a failed platform. Sony has freed Gravity Rush from its PS Vita chains and given it new, gorgeous …