Khee Hoon Chan

The Verge • 27th March 2026

The photo mode consultant helping you take better video game screenshots

“[Virtual photography] is a way to discover the game differently, because you can check every single detail,” says Helme. “It's really enhancing the artistry in a game for your eyes, and then creating something from it for someone else.”

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.

Rascal News • 27th April 2026

Inscryption’s bespoke, two-player board game is a fusion of aesthetics and adaptation

CrypticCrafter’s resplendent recreation of Inscryption is only the most recent addition to an ongoing phenomenon. Since the release of the digital deckbuilding game five years ago, a community of fans has been replicating big chunks of it in real life.

The Wand Report • 24th April 2026

Titanium Court Review

I had a debilitating headache playing Titanium Court.This is entirely my fault, and if Titanium Court had a voice, it would have impishly suggested that the headache was of my own doing, too.

Rascal News • 21st April 2026

Why localizing Japan’s decades-old fantasy RPGs can be a behemoth task

Meet the studios bringing Sword World and Wares Blade to the English-speaking world.

The Wand Report • 16th April 2026

Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss Review

But Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss is not a game in this vein. Instead, its true horror lies in the inscrutable tedium of paperwork and emails.

The Wand Report • 14th April 2026

Mouse: P.I. for Hire Review

Animation fans, rejoice: the 1930s cartoon Dizzy Dishes has entered the public domain this year. W

The Wand Report • 13th April 2026

Moves of the Diamond Hand Preview

Moves of the Diamond Hand begins with a dire confrontation: a puddle of spilled bubble tea has muddied the exit you’re alighting the train from.

Mothership • 8th April 2026

Kara Stone is creating low-carbon games

Kara Stone wants to build principles of sustainability into her work, beginning with a series of low-carbon games that are centered around climate consciousness.

Edge • 29th March 2026

An Audience with Bennett Foddy

Bennett Foddy’s games are likely to evoke
extreme and often painful emotions.

The Verge • 27th March 2026

The photo mode consultant helping you take better video game screenshots

“[Virtual photography] is a way to discover the game differently, because you can check every single detail,” says Helme. “It's really enhancing the artistry in a game for your eyes, and then creating something from it for someone else.”

Rascal News • 26th March 2026

Forge bonds through pit stops and awkward road trip conversations in Runeway

As Runedrifters, players band and travel together across the ever-evolving world of Weyrd, which is home to strange denizens like fish people, winged demons, and magical golems. They are wanderers of this realm, seeking out companions to accomplish a common goal together.

Rascal News • 23rd March 2026

Fighting for justice in the cyberpunk city of Ten Thousand Days For The Sword

There’s something quite lyrical about the way designer Emily Zhu (朱保敬) has melded two seemingly disparate genres together in Ten Thousand Days For The Sword: the glistening, high tech streets of cyberpunk, and the fantastical, even mystical theatrics of wuxia.

Epic Games • 17th March 2026

Screamer’s story-driven arcade racer pays homage to its retro roots

Peek the long curves, metallic sheen, and shimmering headlights of the cars in the Screamer reboot, set amidst ribbons of asphalt in a neon-lit city or the dusty street circuits of an industrial district.

Rascal News • 13th March 2026

Rebellion Unplugged vows to make Tunnels & Trolls: A New Age more approachable than ever

The second tabletop RPG that has ever been published (or third, if you consider the obscure Rules to the Game of Dungeon) is making a return.

The Wand Report • 12th March 2026

John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando Review

This loop is the heart of Toxic Commando: shoot, harvest, survive, and oh, make some deliveries while you’re at it. As a blood-soaked zombie shooter that takes ample inspiration from titans of the genre like Left 4 Dead and Back 4 Blood (a missed opportunity, perhaps, to name it Toxic 4 Commando instead), Toxic Commando doesn’t really break the mould, and you get the sense that it doesn’t really want to anyway.

The Wand Report • 23rd February 2026

Mewgenics Review

Mewgenics is about breeding a battalion of cats at your base, and then sending eligible kitties off into the wild for rounds of combat against crudely drawn enemies, from floating pieces of excrement to battle-hardened cat sergeants.

Edge • 19th February 2026

Time Extend: Undertale

Violence, pacifism and consequences: a decade
later, how does Toby Fox’s smash RPG hold up?

The Wand Report • 12th February 2026

REANIMAL Review

With REANIMAL, Tarsier Studios is depicting a bleak, foreboding dystopia based on the inexplicable dread of childhood fears.

Rascal News • 6th January 2026

Asian vampires in Vampire: the Masquerade have been getting an unofficial facelift

Vampire: The Masquerade has largely driven the stake through the heart of the vampire archetype, but the series has not always done this so tastefully. One example: the Kuei-jin.

GameSpot • 23rd December 2025

I Hated Parrying, Until I Played Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Parrying is about subtlety. It's the act of scrutinizing fisticuffs and sword fights with a furrowed brow, familiarizing yourself with the cadence of combat right down to milliseconds, and learning the precise moment of performing a counter attack.

Stop Caring • 19th December 2025

Pay Attention to Incomplete Games

Famously, unfinished artworks like da Vinci’s piece are compelling and enigmatic, their underdrawings hinting at the artists’ process. Likewise, the same may be gleaned from unfinished games, with these offering a tantalizing look into how they are made.

NPR • 3rd December 2025

The best games of 2025, picked by NPR's staff

Contributed two blurbs on 2025's best games: Lost Records: Bloom & Rage and Repose.

Game Developer • 3rd December 2025

What goes into a good parry system?

Parry systems are everywhere now. Though sometimes considered as frustrating as escort quests and underwater levels, the divisive feature has seeped into combat systems across all manner of games,

Rascal News • 31st October 2025

You Will Die In This Place is an autobiographical RPG told through multiple, fictional perspectives

You Will Die In This Place is a grim name for a tabletop RPG; not only does it point to the inevitability of death and decay, but it suggests an incontrovertible finale set in an unknowable space.

Rascal News • 16th October 2025

Jubensha is going international

The game is increasingly making its way to Western shores, with jubensha becoming more prominent within the Anglosphere thanks to People Make Games’ documentary last year.