Shannon Liao

'Pokémon Legends: Z-A' is a highly anticipated RPG and we just got another good look at what's to come.

In addition to schoolwork and chores, the young protagonist of Consume Me experiences the pressures of disordered eating.

In a video game landscape filled with fast-paced first-person shooters focused on parachuting onto rooftops, finding the shiniest machine gun and taking down relentless foes, Consume Me goes somewhere more personal.

My Jackbox aficionado friends were quick to throw each other into the interrogation room, where one of them hemmed and hawed while the other grilled them profusely. One of them even said their childhood crush was Sailor Moon, which threw everyone else off their scent and had them suspecting me as the criminal. We had gathered to play the latest Jackbox Party Pack 11 days before release, and the most eager ones immediately learned the rules for a game of what I’ve dubbed to be “dog Among Us,” trying to find the imposter dog among the group.

Over the holiday season, despite my best efforts to play more Hollow Knight: Silksong and Expedition 33, I felt the weird haunting pull of League of Legends again. There are so few five-player versus five-player competitive experiences with such a rich cast of characters that I’ve essentially grown up alongside.

Silent Hill developer Motoi Okamoto said there are several specific locations he’s thinking about bringing the game to next. While at first he said he could not reveal more details, as he kept speaking, he added more ideas.

What drew me to Disco Elysium from the start was the fashion, when I saw someone wearing that very jacket. That was also the start of studio ZA/UM’s fashion-forward Atelier, headed by Kristiina Ago.

Finally, a party game where you can DJ with a grappling hook.