Nick is a freelance writer from Chicago, IL, with a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His lifelong belief in the artistic power of video games led him to ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Inscryption is a strange game. It's primarily a card-battling experience akin to something like Slay the Spire, but like Dan Mullins Games' past ...

“Scary” isn’t usually a word that comes to mind when talking about digital card games. Some deck-builders, like Hearthstone, include cards that depict menacing monsters, but those creatures are never ...

Welcome back to The Backlog! For February, we are diving into strategy games. This week we will be looking at the mysterious roguelike deck-building game of “Inscryption.” Published by Devolver ...

PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 users will be able to play Inscryption when it arrives on the systems in August. Set for an August 30 release, the game will run you $19.99 and is available for ...

There’s a technique popular in classical music called variation: a composer will take a single melody or musical idea and explore it in many different ways, potentially twisting it into dozens of ...

Third-Party is a series of guest blogs where developers talk about specific games, mechanics, levels, and more. This week we have Mateusz Tomaskiewicz, principal game designer at Riot Games, speaking ...

Inscryption is one of 2021's best games, but it was hard to justify putting it into any specific category. It's a deck-building game, yes, but it's also a puzzle game and a horror game that blends ...

Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've been playing over the past few days. This week: possessed cards, infinite wealth, and journals. If ...

The deck-building genre has gained significant momentum recently, with indie games like Balatro drawing attention to the genre’s addictive qualities. However, one game that still stands out is ...