Bee Wertheimer

When you defeat a skeleton in a video game, there's a very good chance it will quickly reassemble itself. How…

Sam Eng, the sole developer of Skate Story, discusses how his hometown of New York City influenced the game.

Second screens are ruining multiplayer games: what "distracted gaming" says about our tech addiction and inab…

When tasked with breaking up with your AI girlfriend, the chatbot repeatedly gaslights you.

Not feeling Halloween now that you're an adult? Let the free game The Annual Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival revi…

While the kid-oriented MMOs of yesteryear were imperfect, the modern equivalent, Roblox, carries even bigger …

Despite capitalism's insistence that even leisure must be productive, Baby Steps re-teaches us what it means …

Consume Me starts off strong and has a lot of potential, but this minigame memoir doesn't quite stick the lan…

Why automate the process of discovering new works of art? Take the power from the genre-driven machine and le…

As Bee Wertheimer grasps for agency before moving to a new apartment, House Flipper 2 has them reckoning with…

We shed light on the experience of studying game design in a university setting, having graduated three month…

Valorant matchmaking isn't designed as well as it could be. Here's how this affects gender-marginalized playe…

The sandbox room-builder MakeRoom is a delightful experience that leaves you feeling like a professional inte…

Fretless is a delightful game that celebrates the joy of making music, but it doesn't fully realize its own p…

Just because low-budget games like Lethal Company and Peak are popular and played with friends doesn't mean t…

Acclaimed upon release 10 years ago and still held up as an exemplar of video game narrative, Firewatch dress…

The interactive nature of video games makes them uniquely suited to help people understand and recover from a…

Games are doomed by femininity.