This is the second volume of Perfected Game Mechanics. This series looks at games where, be they wonderful, amazing, ...

The Last of Us makes movement and action mechanics count. Stay out of sight. Credit: Liane Hentscher/HBO The game involves a hell of a lot of heaving open hidden entrances, crawling under ...

Mechanics might very well be what makes a game, and most of the time it's the selling point. Game companies will argue that their products are packed with improved and tweaked gameplay features ...

Though not every game in the RPG genre needs to feature what was listed above, those mechanics do make you think twice about the decisions you make in every playthrough. You'll always remember the ...

That’s half of the fun half of the time, but it turns out that there are quite a few hidden mechanics in Tears of the Kingdom that the game just doesn’t really tell you about. While players ...

Recently, Game Rant had the opportunity to chat with creative director AJ Grand-Scrutton about how he and his team worked to bring a new story to such beloved characters, stand out mechanics of ...

This has put one of the coolest game mechanics of the 2010s in limbo. Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor's excellent Nemesis system is locked behind a patent owned by Warner Bros all the way until ...

The book also offers a look at different ways to construct your own Starfinder campaign and different genres of campaigns. We ...

The HBO adaptation of The Last of Us Part 2 won't feature Abby as such a muscly character as her role in Season 2 doesn't need to emulate certain video game mechanics, showrunner and Naughty Dog ...