Cruise Ship Vacation Games

The Pacific Northwest in video games is pretty uniformly creepy, dark, and wet. But how did it get like that? Polygon's Simone de Rochefort traces the history of the Pacific Northwest in media, from Alan Wake 2 and Pacific Drive, all the way back to Twin Peaks — and the new high-tech world that we live in now, dominated by Amazon and Microsoft.

Half-Life, Portal, and Left 4 Dead. Here are the 10 best Valve games of all time.

A saltier sort of sandbox.

And the Gears of War: E-Day Direct that follows.

Dark Souls popularized a control scheme where the light attack button is on R1/RB. Action games have copied it for years, and I'm sick of it.