Video game developers, designers, and scholars have devoted a substantial amount of time to understanding immersion—the psychological state in which players feel present within the game world—and ...

First-person action combat is something that video games have had trouble nailing down. It's a hard balance to strike. First-person perspectives require players to look around to see what's beside and ...

Remember about 15 years ago or so when to the non-gaming public videogames were synonymous with blood, carnage and youth-corrupting violence? When concerned parents around the country banded together ...

Nintendo's GameCube was not synonymous with first-person shooters. If you wanted to play an FPS game during the early 2000s, your best bet would be to own a PC; alternatively, the Xbox launched with ...

If you’re anything like me, you loved Titanfall 2. Respawn Entertainment’s 2016 masterpiece—think Mirror’s Edge with mechs and a whole lot more shooting—slaked a thirst even then, as the “first-person ...

Evan is a Communications student based in Edmonton, Alberta. Formerly a sports writer, he was drawn to Game Rant by his longtime passion for video games. An avid gamer since the age of 13, Evan has ...

Morgan Pinder is a writer at GameRant and a graduate researcher at Deakin University in Australia. Their research interests are in video games, environmentalism and gothic media. Morgan’s most recent ...