Tutorials might feel tedious in most games, but some titles bring a welcome twist to them. The best tutorials teach game ...

Sam has loved video games and writing for as long as they can remember. When they aren't gaming or writing, they can be found watching motorsports and ice hockey. Tutorials are often the least ...

Is it better to hand hold new players through a game tutorial to teach them all the mechanics and intricacies of a game, or is it better to let them figure things out on their own? The "tutorial level ...

Tutorials are supposed to help you, right? They ease you into a game’s systems and give you a fighting chance before things get tough. But sometimes, they do the opposite. Whether they’re too rigid or ...

Sheri Graner Ray is no stranger to the game industry or game designers. She has been making games since 1990, is the author of Gender Inclusive Game Design - Expanding the Market, a co-founder of the ...

Monica is a writer, artist, musician, and indie game developer, loving all things related to video games. She’s a woman with a bit of adoration for every game genre. From her first experience with ...

In my time on this earth I’ve pledged allegiance to many masters. Learned men and women: Buddhists, dissidents, Jedi. Their words—always measured—tend to echo at critical junctures. Whenever I face ...

When it comes to hand-holding tutorials, however, nothing beats Mario and Luigi: Dream Team, a game so aggressively patronising with its relentless pop-up factoids you'd be forgiven for turning the ...

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is a thoroughly self-aware parody of 1980s action movies and video games, to the extent that it even mocks the very notion of a tutorial...by forcing players to sit through a ...