I spent much of Prime Day this year with my heart set on a Nintendo Switch. I waited, patiently, for a deal to pop up. Eventually, one did: a regular-price Nintendo Switch that came with added bonuses of a 64 GB SD card and $20 in Nintendo eShop credit. That was deal enough for me.

Cambridge-based publisher and developer Jagex celebrated all aspects of its popular massively multiplayer online game, RuneScape, at its eighth annual RuneFest fan convention. Held for the first time in the brand new Farnborough International Exhibition and Conference Centre.

Modern gaming has embraced the open-world model wholeheartedly.

I never liked The Walking Dead comic or TV show — typically I do not like zombie fare — but I did play Telltale Games’ famous, critically renowned first season.

“Assassin’s Creed” games can be overwhelming. What was once a manageable 40-hour past time has transformed to a behemoth experience that is similar to one holding a second job. Playing a campaign sometimes feels like trying to suck a melon through a straw.

You’d be forgiven if the only things you got out of the most recent Nintendo Direct were Animal Crossing and the internet’s great and uncontainable love for Isabelle.

“Tomb Raider” has always danced on the knife’s edge of reality and myth. The franchise works best when it falls on the side of believability.

I don’t play games on my phone or my tablet — not for very long, anyway. Oh, as regular readers well know, I take my turns dabbling in the likes of Fire Emblem Heroes and Pokemon Shuffle with bright, feverish passion.

The Peter Parker that Insomniac Games and Marvel Entertainment have crafted in the new “Spider-Man” game is nothing like the one we’ve seen in previous games, or in the many movies.

British newspapers reported in June that a 15-year-old boy committed suicide in February after playing Doki Doki Literature Club — and the boy’s father is claiming that the game is to blame.