Khee Hoon Chan

The Verge • 24th June 2025

Hideo Kojima sees Death Stranding 2 as a cautionary tale

“I thought I can’t pull this off. [I can’t] meet people or scan people, or shoot with people. I almost gave up. And also the staff were all remote, and I became sick as well. I thought it was just the end of the world,” he says.

Rascal News • 30th July 2024

Behind the decade-long session of TribeNet and its play-by-email empires

Imagine the immensity of an RPG where a single campaign lasts for a staggering 10 years—perhaps even more.

GamesIndustry.biz • 4th July 2023

Why do games media layoffs keep happening?

I covered the events behind the massive layoffs of Fanbyte, The Washington Post's Launcher, Future and The Gamurs Group.

The Verge • 24th June 2025

Hideo Kojima sees Death Stranding 2 as a cautionary tale

“I thought I can’t pull this off. [I can’t] meet people or scan people, or shoot with people. I almost gave up. And also the staff were all remote, and I became sick as well. I thought it was just the end of the world,” he says.

The Verge • 28th May 2025

Keita Takahashi returns with the whimsically weird To a T

To a T is yet another Takahashi title that fits the playful tradition of its creator, well, to a tee.

The Verge • 25th April 2025

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is an audacious RPG with all the right moves

Expedition 33 is built upon the conventional anchors of its genre. But its grandiose tale, bolstered by a downright robust combat system, turns it into something much more than just a scrappy underdog.

Epic Games • 22nd April 2025

7 games about climate change and the natural world to play on Earth Day

Experience the joys of virtually traversing the natural world in the games below, which offer glimpses into the ocean’s depths and the mesmerizing peaks of mountain ranges.

The Verge • 22nd February 2025

Lost Records: Bloom & Rage blends its teen drama with a heavy dose of ’90s nostalgia

The first half of Bloom & Rage leans heavily into 90s nostalgia.

TechRadar Gaming • 30th January 2025

Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector review

Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector tells a radical science fiction tale through an impeccably designed system and a moving narrative rife with themes that are acutely attuned to our times.

Eurogamer • 10th December 2024

Reflecting on Planescape Torment's legacy, 25 years later

The greatest trick that Planescape Torment pulled is disguising its verbosity - an eye-watering script of 800,000 words - by relying on, and then swiftly subverting conventions.

NPR • 5th December 2024

The best games of 2024, picked by NPR's staff

Wrote about Mouthwashing for NPR.

The Verge • 6th November 2024

Life is Strange: Double Exposure ends with a disappointing finale

Perhaps an ending where Max gets a reprieve from the slew of misfortunes that the world seems to enjoy hurling at her is too idealistic.

The Verge • 16th October 2024

Life is Strange: Double Exposure is more heart than whodunit

A preview of Life Is Strange: Double Exposure

Epic Games • 1st August 2024

Apex Legends: From Titanfall sequel to battle royale masterpiece

In the beginning, Apex Legends featured only eight Legends, each broadly embodying a class archetype. Five years and 21 seasons later, the roster has swelled to a staggering 26 Legends.

Rascal News • 30th July 2024

Behind the decade-long session of TribeNet and its play-by-email empires

Imagine the immensity of an RPG where a single campaign lasts for a staggering 10 years—perhaps even more.

TechRadar Gaming • 19th February 2024

These developers are putting game preservation front and center

There are still developers out there who aren’t deterred, as they look to tackle the thorny field of game preservation by actively saving legacy games.

Game Informer • 13th February 2024

The Exuberance of Being Night School Studio

Adam Douglas has a ghastly secret. He shared the recipe
for a Cuban dish – the Arroz con Pollo – in an in-game radio station in Oxenfree II: Lost Signals, and it’s one that he describes as “very controversial.”

Epic Games • 18th January 2024

Not For Broadcast captures the high-octane rush of managing a newsroom

Not For Broadcast is a satirical FMV game about current affairs and propaganda, with several hours of video footage for players to splice, dice and curate for broadcast within a fictional European country.

Epic Games • 17th January 2024

Paint away your inner demons in Chicory: A Colorful Tale

Chicory is a game that thrives on your whims, allowing you to bask in the joy of forging your own path through self-expression.

Epic Games • 11th January 2024

4 games where you can talk your way out of trouble

Discover how far your powers of persuasion can take you in these four games.

IGN • 20th November 2023

How Black Myth: Wukong Developer’s History of Sexism Is Complicating its Journey to the West

Indie developer Game Science’s global fame is forcing it to confront its own sexism, and that of the Chinese tech industry.

Remap • 8th November 2023

A Beautiful View: Jusant and the Joys of Climbing

It’s hard to deny the parallels between Jusant’s sprawling deserts and that of our own world.

Epic Games • 6th November 2023

How Everything contemplates the meaning of existence through exploration

Everything is a philosophical game where you explore the furthest recesses of the universe in any form you can imagine.

Game Developer • 19th October 2023

Looking back at the legacy of Remedy’s Max Payne 2

Twenty years ago, Remedy released Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, a gritty, neo-noir shooter that features gunslinging sequences of feverish proportions, its pulpy violence enacted by a gruff, cynical detective, a broken shell of a man.

Polygon • 29th September 2023

Mineko’s Night Market builds on 2023’s cozy game obsession

Once you get over the initial lull and gain access to more of the island’s corners, Mineko’s Night Market ramps up significantly, with a nearly dizzying amount of activities to pursue.

Eurogamer.net • 29th September 2023

Midautumn builds upon Hades to explore an Asian diaspora experience

For the team at Midautumn, Hades has paved the way for the game to impart a story about an Asian diaspora community, faced with the threat of gentrification.

Bullet Points • 28th August 2023

One Space Station’s Trash, Another Man's Treasure

The rush to collect trash items and recycle them has become a compulsion I can’t snap out of, gripping me with its cybernetic tendrils as the plot of System Shock—stopping the corrupt AI SHODAN, fighting for the resistance, saving humanity, and all that jazz—largely disperses into the ether.