A new console generation isn’t just better graphics and more power; it’s about where creativity grows next. Certain gameplay flourishes become an early stamp of approval within the launch window of a ...

Ernesto Valenzuela is a Gaming Features Writer for Collider. He's been writing about movies, comics, TV, and video games since 2017. When he's not doing that he's probably watching Basketball or ...

It makes sense why we like watching or playing a character traveling through the same day, hour, or even minute over and over; it is a powerful metaphor for exploring regret, missed connections, ...

Hi! My name’s Michael, and today I want to talk to you about time loops. You know, like the thing Groundhog Day was made of, or one third of all Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes. Time loops are ...

Some of the best stories include time loops. There’s the likes of Majora’s Mask, Outer Wilds, and Deathloop that all earned a lot of praise for how they included a time loop mechanic. And let’s not ...

Deathloop may be the highest profile time loop game this year, but it’s far from the only one. In a way, time loop fictions have always felt connected to real world anxieties and problems. In today’s ...

Since Groundhog Day came out in 1993, the film’s title has been an easy way of describing any new movie or show structured around a character being stuck in a repeating day. Russian Doll, Happy Death ...

Games based on time loops, where the protagonist is caught in a repeating cycle of events, are having something of a moment. Deathloop, Twelve Minutes, The Forgotten City, Returnal, Outer Wilds, Minit ...