Nov 29, 2016

Don Saas

Voicing a 'Final Fantasy XV' Character Is a Strange Journey

Nov 29, 2016 Don Saas

It's hard to create a memorable character when you get the script on the way to the recording booth.

Nov 28, 2016

Ed Smith

Indie Dev Cosmo D Is Humanizing New York

Nov 28, 2016 Ed Smith

The maker of Off-Peak and the forthcoming The Norwood Suite is finding unique ways to reflect the city around him.

Nov 22, 2016

Patrick Klepek

Inside the Ambitious 'Sleeping Dogs' Sequel We'll Never Get to Play

Nov 22, 2016 Patrick Klepek

United Front Games has closed, dashing hopes fans would ever see a sequel to cult hit Sleeping Dogs. But for a while, they were working on it. Waypoint has proof.

Nov 21, 2016

Mike Diver

Meeting the Masters of the ‘EVE Online’ Universe

Nov 21, 2016 Mike Diver

CCP Games launched its spacefaring MMORPG back in 2003, but today it's controlled more by its community than its creators.

Nov 18, 2016

Patrick Klepek

The Designer Behind 'Senran Kagura' Explains Why His Games Are Full of Barely Clothed Women

Nov 18, 2016 Patrick Klepek

Kenichiro Takaki is one of the few Japanese designers who openly talks about sexuality in games. We chatted with him about his reasons, the moments when games go too far, censorship, and more.

Nov 16, 2016

Nicole Pacampara

How the Tech Behind 'Pokemon Go' Has Been Powering Games for Decades

Nov 16, 2016 Nicole Pacampara

Locative media has been here since the 90s, but we're only just beginning to see it's full potential now.

Nov 14, 2016

Mike Diver

I Could Just Cuddle These ‘Watch Dogs 2’ Characters

Nov 14, 2016 Mike Diver

Far from a gang of cold, hard hackers, the cast of Ubisoft's new game is full of palpable, believable personality.

Nov 11, 2016

Mike Diver

Discussing the Enduring Appeal of Abe with Oddworld Creator Lorne Lanning

Nov 11, 2016 Mike Diver

We meet up with the designer and director to discuss the series' 20th anniversary and the reboot of an old favorite.

Nov 11, 2016

Hussian Almahr

How Games, Piracy, and Religion Come Together in Saudi Arabia

Nov 11, 2016 Hussian Almahr

How one player found solace—from religious discrimination and growing pains—in less-than-legal games.

Nov 10, 2016

Austin Walker

A Note on Trump, Waypoint, and Why We Play

Nov 10, 2016 Austin Walker

Editor-in-Chief Austin Walker offers his thoughts on how the US Presidential election impacts on the goals of Waypoint.

Nov 4, 2016

Mike Diver

Inside the Uphill Battle of 'Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare'

Nov 4, 2016 Mike Diver

Infinity Ward has made a CoD that dares to be different—but the series' hardcore fanbase is more interested in an older, clunkier "classic."

Oct 31, 2016

Elisabeth de Kleer

Dragons in the Department of Corrections

Oct 31, 2016 Elisabeth de Kleer

Inmates at a Colorado's maximum security prison use Dungeons & Dragons to collaborate and exercise their creativity... all without dice.

Oct 30, 2016 Gaming

VICE Staff

Watch Chief Keef Game Against the Waypoint Staff to Celebrate the Site's Launch

Oct 30, 2016 VICE Staff

Prodigy of Mobb Deep is currently gaming against the Waypoint staff, and Chief Keef is coming by later to play using PSVR headsets. We couldn't be geeking out more. You can watch the livestream here to witness the legends crush the competition.

Oct 30, 2016

Kyle Brodzky

I Sold My ‘Star Citizen’ Fleet To Finance a New Car

Oct 30, 2016 Kyle Brodzky

How I traded up virtual vehicles for a real-life ride.

Oct 29, 2016

Tanya Short

The Curious Appeal of Crunch

Oct 29, 2016 Tanya Short

The reasons why developers work far too hard on their own games are more complex than you may think.

Oct 26, 2016 Gaming

William Barboza

Remembering Fighting Games' Fatalities Arms Race

Oct 26, 2016 William Barboza

We look back at the Mortal Kombat wannabes with two games industry veterans from the blood-soaked early 1990s.

Oct 26, 2016 Gaming

Patrick Klepek

The Exhausting Ten-Year Journey to Release 'Owlboy'

Oct 26, 2016 Patrick Klepek

No one at D-Pad expected to spend the better part of a decade on a single game, but life, death, and delays got in the way.

Oct 26, 2016 Gaming

Danielle Riendeau

Nobody Played 'Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze,' but I Loved It Anyway

Oct 26, 2016 Danielle Riendeau

It wasn't Donkey Kong's fault that everyone wanted a new Metroid, but it doomed this absurdly good platformer.

Oct 25, 2016 Gaming

Patrick Klepek

The First 'Dark Souls III' DLC Is 'Dark Souls' at Its Worst: Boring

Oct 25, 2016 Patrick Klepek

Three sequels and several pieces of downloadable content later, perhaps Dark Souls has simply run out of steam.

Oct 24, 2016 Gaming

Patrick Klepek

We Introduce Our Newest Hire and Talk Game Writing Challenges on Waypoint's New Podcast

Oct 24, 2016 Patrick Klepek

The Waypoint crew continues to grow, as managing editor Danielle Riendeau joins Patrick Klepek and Austin Walker to kick off another week in video games.

Oct 24, 2016 Gaming

Patrick Klepek

This Guy Spent 342 Hours Speedrunning a Card-Based JRPG

Oct 24, 2016 Patrick Klepek

Julien Jaffrès's hobby is beating Baten Kaitos, a cult classic card-based JRPG for the GameCube, as fast as he can. His fastest time is about two weeks.

Oct 21, 2016 Gaming

Patrick Klepek

We Talk About Nintendo Switch And Building A Website On Waypoint’s New Podcast

Oct 21, 2016 Patrick Klepek

Almost the entire Waypoint team gets together to discuss the first trailer for Red Dead Redemption 2, Nintendo's new hardware, and more.

Oct 21, 2016 Gaming

Patrick Klepek

How 'Doom 2' Helped Me Understand Technology

Oct 21, 2016 Patrick Klepek

A trip to the computer store in search of financial software with my dad became a surprising way to learn about how computers work.

Oct 20, 2016 Gaming

Mike Diver

‘Eternal Champions’ Is the Game That Quenched a Teenage Thirst for Gore

Oct 20, 2016 Mike Diver

It was more messily slapstick than outright offensive, but Sega's fighter took a look at Mortal Kombat's fatalities and said: we can do better.