Why 'Far Cry 5' Will Be (Much) More Than Meets the Eye

Matt Peckham

Matt Peckham is TIME's video games critic. He has an M.A. in Creative Writing from Creighton University and lives in Iowa. Drop him a line here.

Matt Peckham

Matt Peckham is TIME's video games critic. He has an M.A. in Creative Writing from Creighton University and lives in Iowa. Drop him a line here.

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Entertainment Why 'Far Cry 5' Will Be (Much) More Than Meets the Eye You can read as much or as little as you like into Ubisoft’s Far Cry 5 announcement trailer. The game, a sandbox adventure set in fictional Hope County, Montana (due Feb. 27, 2018 for PC,

Entertainment Review: 'Magikarp Jump' Is So Dumb It Just Might Be Brilliant My initial reaction to Magikarp Jump, a new mobile game by The Pokémon Company that’s out now for iOS and Android in which you tap to make the gawking aquatic Pokémon frolic,

Entertainment Review: 'Rime' Builds a Beguiling World Over Mediocre Puzzles It’s a great time to be sad in video games. Take Fumito Ueda’s magisterial The Last Guardian, which explores a harried creature’s cheerless odyssey through wrack and ruin. Or

Tech Here's Far Cry 5's Villain and He Looks Positively Nuts When I was in grad school, a writer and mentor who introduced me to everyone from Borges and Barth to Richard Ford and Raymond Carver illustrated the concept of “less is more” in this

Tech 'Far Cry 5' Looks Like 'Red Dead Redemption' Meets 'Fargo'No, these rolling Far Cry 5 teaser trailer shots aren’t snatched from the game itself. That would be a minor miracle even gazillion-dollar films have yet to pull off. The idea here is to

Tech Everything We Just Learned About 'Destiny 2'How do you follow an online first-person shooter with tens of millions of registered players bristling with hard-earned abilities and accolades? By jamming the artifice of heroes forced back to being

Tech Check Out How Insanely Big This New Lego Minecraft Set Is Alright, I confess. All these Lego Minecraft sets I’ve purchased for my 4.5-year-old are pulling double duty. They’re for daddy, too. So it is with a mix of naked longing and anticipatory

Tech Nintendo Switch and 'Mario Kart 8 Deluxe' Dominated April Game Sales Here’s nothing surprising: the Nintendo Switch was the bestselling console in April, after its bumper launch and likewise bestseller status in March. What is somewhat less expected is the

Tech Here's What Middle-earth: Shadow of War's Breathtaking New Regions Look Like “The more you play it, the bigger people perceive the possibility space to be,” game studio Monolith Productions’ Michael de Plater told me while speaking about Middle-earth: Shadow

Tech New Far Cry, Assassin's Creed, The Crew Games Announced Sometimes when it rains, it pours, including official confirmation of new Far Cry, Assassin’s Creed and The Crew games in the offing, thanks to Ubisoft doing what amounts to a celebratory dance

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