Having an easy game for players to play is great, they can get immersed in the story, mechanics, and other elements better that way since they don't have to worry about the difficulty level. It allows ...

Video games should be playable by people of all experience levels and skill sets. This shouldn’t be a controversial statement. Yet, it often is. For years, gamer culture—the toxic parts of it, at ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. A decade before The Last of Us had a popular HBO adaptation, it was a lauded zombie-apocalypse video game that infuriated me. What I remember most about the 2013 ...

With the recent release of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, the conversation surrounding accessibility in video games has been rekindled. Sekiro's an unforgiving title that even hardcore players can have ...

Creative director Greg Kasavin knew a traditional easy mode wouldn’t fit for his game, “Hades.” The roguelike needed to be difficult, but also accessible. Supergiant Games didn’t want to prevent ...

I have too many games that I really want to play but not enough time. I'm thinking about playing games on Easy so that I can manage to play more of them, but am worried that it'll kill the fun, and ...