GamesBeat Rewind 2017: What Remains of Edith Finch has the standout gaming moment of the year

This year’s video games have gifted us with an array of stunning moments, like punching Nazis or scaling Hyrule’s highest mountains or spinning frantically in battle, unsure whether to trust the voices in our heads. The GamesBeat team talked over a few of our favorite gaming memories, and though it was a difficult decision, we’ve […]

How playing Edith Finch was like losing my religion again

Enlarge / Sorry… no one is getting saved in this game. Note: This piece contains pretty significant spoilers for What Remains of Edith Finch. What Remains of Edith Finch wastes no time explaining that it’s a game about death. Perhaps unsurprisingly, however, the game’s much more interesting themes are a considerably slower burn. As instantly, […]

What Remains of Edith Finch launches July 19 on Xbox One

The moody mystery of What Remains of Edith Finch is coming to Xbox One on July 19. It launched earlier this year on PC and the PlayStation 4 to critical acclaim, with reviewers citing the innovative storytelling and empathetic characters as highlights. Edith Finch is a narrative-driven adventure game about a young woman’s investigation of […]

What Remains of Edith Finch is an effective experiment in storytelling

Enlarge / Your first view of the teetering Finch house doesn’t really do justice to its cluttered, circuitous insides. The average big-budget video game story is a sprawling power fantasy quest focused on saving the kingdom/world/galaxy, told in fits and starts amid dozens of hours of often repetitive puzzles and challenges. As far as narrative […]

What Remains of Edith Finch review

I expected What Remains of Edith Finch to be weird and vaguely menacing, but instead found it to be heartbreakingly sweet. Developer Giant Sparrow is no stranger to sadness. Its previous game, The Unfinished Swan, is about a young boy coming to terms with the death of his mother. Sadness is a difficult thing to […]

What Remains of Edith Finch dev talks indie expectations, PS4 Pro and No Man's Sky impact

What Remains of Edith Finch is set to be released on PS4 and PC on April 25, continuing the tradition of an indie game looking to surprise its audience. Players will be searching for short stories in a colossal house, piecing together a family’s history in a bid to discover why Edith is the only […]

The creative spirit behind the disturbing What Remains of Edith Finch

Ian Dallas, creative director at game studio Giant Sparrow, has a knack for describing his games in a way that makes you want to play them. His company’s next title is What Remains of Edith Finch, a video game that is a collection of stories about 13 people on their last day of living. I saw […]