Paste Games is now Endless Mode: infinite possibilities in games, anime, theme parks, and more. www.endlessmode.com/video-games/...

Paste Games is now Endless Mode: infinite possibilities in games, anime, theme parks, and more. www.endlessmode.com/video-games/...

Here's an update on the future of Paste Media's games coverage. In short: Paste Games is going away but it also really isn't. Exciting things are happening. www.pastemagazine.com/games/bye-ya...

We need more single-player board games. Conservas, a solo game about commercial fishing, understands this. It also understands that the sea can be a lonely and solitary domain. Read Keith Law's review. www.pastemagazine.com/games/board-...

Ambrosia Sky might look like a cleaning game, but this rumination on death is puzzling, meditative, and surprisingly heavy. Read our preview of the first game from Soft Rains. www.pastemagazine.com/games/ambros...

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach is a gonzo sequel that mixes mundanity and maximalism while improving on its predecessor in nearly every way. Read our review. www.pastemagazine.com/games/death-...

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach is a gonzo sequel that mixes mundanity and maximalism while improving on its predecessor in nearly every way. Read our review. www.pastemagazine.com/games/death-...

last day to get an application in. we’ll be following up next week.

It was hard to focus on games at Summer Game Fest's Play Days in LA this month, but at their best its games reminded us why we do this. Here are the best games we played at SGF this year. www.pastemagazine.com/games/summer...

Check out our exclusive preview of "Baker's Doesn't," an adventure in the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons adventure Dragon Delves, with fun, candy-colored artwork from Andrew Kolb. www.pastemagazine.com/games/dungeo...

Check out our exclusive preview of "Baker's Doesn't," an adventure in the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons adventure Dragon Delves, with fun, candy-colored artwork from Andrew Kolb. www.pastemagazine.com/games/dungeo...

Want to work with Paste’s games team? We’re looking for an intern to start in July. It’d be a part-time gig, and yes, it pays. Email a resume, a cover letter explaining your experience and goals, and links to pertinent writing you’ve done elsewhere to [email protected] by Friday 6/20.

With TRON: Catalyst Bithell Games builds something almost great from a Disney wasteland. Reigniting our love for TRON isn’t enough to fully overcome some of these gameplay hurdles, though. Read our review. www.pastemagazine.com/games/tron/t...

Mario Kart World understandably gets the headlines, but the most exciting Switch 2 game at launch is a GameCube racer available for the first time since its 2003 debut. F-Zero GX has us hopeful for Nintendo Switch Online's future. www.pastemagazine.com/games/ninten...

In the lead up to the release of the upcoming League of Legends TCG, Riftbound, we got an exclusive look at the Warwick Champion card. www.pastemagazine.com/games/riftbo...

We saw a little bit of Resident Evil Requiem in action this weekend, and, uh, it wasn't particularly inspiring. Here are our thoughts on the hands-off, closed-door Summer Game Fest demo of the ninth mainline Resident Evil game. www.pastemagazine.com/games/reside...

Sword of the Sea, a new game from Giant Squid and the director of ABZÛ and art director of Journey, captures the calming, meditative side of surfing and skating. Read our preview. www.pastemagazine.com/games/sword-...

Want to work with Paste’s games team? We’re looking for an intern to start in July. It’d be a part-time gig, and yes, it pays. Email a resume, a cover letter explaining your experience and goals, and links to pertinent writing you’ve done elsewhere to [email protected] by Friday 6/20.

Mixtape is a game about music, teenaged hijinks, and feeling nostalgic for "the glow of youth"--especially if you're still young yourself. And as the Devo song on its soundtrack says, that's good. www.pastemagazine.com/games/mixtap...

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4 has a new stage where you skate inside a pinball machine being played by an enormous, skyscraper-high Tony Hawk. We really dig this inspired mash-up of Tony Hawk and pinball. www.pastemagazine.com/games/tony-h...

After a weekend of game trailers and teasers, the latest Steam Next Fest is here at a perfect time. Here are five demos you need to check out. www.pastemagazine.com/games/steam-...

Wholesome Direct 2025 highlighted several promising upcoming games, and we've made a list of 10 you should be particularly excited for. www.pastemagazine.com/games/wholes...

The Nintendo Switch 2 is finally out, and after over 24 hours with the system, we've collected our initial thoughts. www.pastemagazine.com/games/ninten...

Mario Kart World charges into the online gaming world of the late ‘00s. www.pastemagazine.com/games/mario-...

For all its conceptual grotesqueness, horror game Biophobia doesn't aim for shock value; it’s a meditative experience on horrific subject matter, but isn't horrific itself. www.pastemagazine.com/games/biopho...

Zenith is a tense and mostly well-balanced tug-of-war board game about galactic conquest. Read Keith Law’s review. www.pastemagazine.com/games/board-...

Riot Games has revealed details on Riftbound's Booster pack rates, Champion cards, and more. www.pastemagazine.com/games/league...

Everybody has a favorite 1990s RPG. Forget your first round draft picks, though; it’s time to remember the RPGs that hardly ever make any GOAT lists. Here are our favorite cult classic RPGs from the '90s. www.pastemagazine.com/games/rpgs/b...

Everybody has a favorite 1990s RPG. Forget your first round draft picks, though; it’s time to remember the RPGs that hardly ever make any GOAT lists. Here are our favorite cult classic RPGs from the '90s. www.pastemagazine.com/games/rpgs/b...

The Drifter is an upcoming adventure game that smartly channels a specific era of Carpenter-esque thrills. www.pastemagazine.com/games/the-dr...

There's a mistaken belief that the Sega Saturn, which came out 30 years ago this month, failed because Sega—the company behind games like Virtua Racing and Virtua Fighter—didn't anticipate the rise of 3D gaming. That simply isn't true. www.pastemagazine.com/games/sega/n...

To a T, the new game from Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi, is a well-intentioned but disappointing misfire. Read our review. www.pastemagazine.com/games/to-a-t...

Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake tackles modernizing a pair of seminal NES RPGs, and the result has potential. www.pastemagazine.com/games/dragon...

Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest might be a pandering Fisher Price experience for dumb Americans, but it's still one of the best Final Fantasy games ever made. www.pastemagazine.com/games/final-...

Despelote is the rare videogame about sports as a concept and a cultural touchstone, instead of recreating a specific sport. www.pastemagazine.com/games/despel...

The Sega Saturn turns 30 this month, and although it was unloved in its day, it had a number of great games that deserve a re-release. www.pastemagazine.com/games/sega/1...

Diatoms turns a weird Victorian art craze into a solid competitive board game that also has a solo campaign. Read Keith Law's review. www.pastemagazine.com/games/board-...

Monster Train 2 offers a smooth ride thanks to cleverly designed cards and even more room for deckbuilding expression. www.pastemagazine.com/games/monste...

In 1994 fighting games ruled the arcades and 3D graphics were about to take over--and both were bad news for shoot 'em ups. Perhaps that's why it took 31 years for Namco's great shmup NebulasRay to finally get a home release? www.pastemagazine.com/games/shmups...

Despelote is the rare videogame about sports as a concept and a cultural touchstone, instead of recreating a specific sport. Bittersweet and understated, it understands how sports unites communities and creates a sense of identity. www.pastemagazine.com/games/despel...

The Midnight Walk is an atmospheric horror-adventure game that wows with hand-sculpted clay figures and a charming creepy-cute world. www.pastemagazine.com/games/the-mi...

We head to New Hampshire to play Galaxian3, Namco's groundbreaking 1990 room-sized arcade game that doesn't exist anywhere else in America. www.pastemagazine.com/games/galaxi...

We saw dozens of games at PAX East 2025, and we've compiled a list of ten exciting upcoming releases worth paying attention to. www.pastemagazine.com/games/pax/th...

We saw dozens of games at PAX East 2025, and we've compiled a list of ten exciting upcoming releases worth paying attention to. www.pastemagazine.com/games/pax/th...

Despelote is the rare videogame about sports as a concept and a cultural touchstone, instead of recreating a specific sport. Bittersweet and understated, it understands how sports unites communities and creates a sense of identity. www.pastemagazine.com/games/despel...

The Midnight Walk is an atmospheric horror-adventure game that wows with hand-sculpted clay figures and a charming creepy-cute world. www.pastemagazine.com/games/the-mi...

PlayStation announced a new studio of ex-Bungie developers called TeamLFG, who are working on a title inspired by "frog-type games." Could this be the Frogs and Flies revival the world has waited 40 years for? www.pastemagazine.com/games/frog-t...

GTA VI will (still) be the biggest thing ever whenever it finally comes out; hopefully it won't also be as embarrassing as GTA usually is. www.pastemagazine.com/games/gta/gt...

LudoNarraCon 2025 is here with a new batch of story-focused games, and we've compiled a list of the best games we saw at the show. www.pastemagazine.com/games/ludona...

Floristry is a two-player auction board game that introduces an interesting new mechanic to the genre but is otherwise a little too simplistic. Read Keith Law's review. www.pastemagazine.com/games/board-...