Kate Cox's posts

I am become Death, destroyer of crates.

Last week, during a visit to Firaxis to have a look at XCOM: Enemy Unknown, I had some time to talk with the game's…

One of the things that makes Telltale's The Walking Dead video game tick is choice. Players get to make a series of…

Call it beginner's luck: my first round of XCOM: Enemy Unknown's multiplayer was my strongest showing. It came down…

Last week, I was invited to spend some time at Firaxis to see the new XCOM. Early Wednesday morning, I hopped in…

Regular readers may have noticed that I have rather an addiction to classic point-and-click style adventure games.…

There is an excellent game out there based on The Walking Dead. It's a five-part serial, of which the first two…

Gameloft, most recently of the Dark Knight Rises tie-in fame, have recently been promising their first mobile game…

Hey, do you remember Blackberry? Remember how for years, every white-collar professional who worked in every office…

Yes, nitpickers, I know: the Normandy was never red and black. That's strictly for Shepard's default N7 armor.…

This is not actually a little blue apple, though you might be forgiven for thinking so. It's a lonely little…

Ralph Baer basically invented video games. During the 1960s, when television itself was still fairly newfangled, he…

I can pinpoint the exact line that finally broke me.

We featured a work in progress last week, the beginnings of a music video looking at Chell's life after Aperture.

There are some really cute characters in the Mass Effect series. Liara has charmed many a Shepard with her smile,…

I don't ordinarily think of "makeup artist" and "gaming" as going together. After all: the characters whose stories…

For most League of Legends fans, the game is, well, a game. But for world-class competitive, professional players,…

There is no color allowed in this family's home. Theirs is a cult of khaki, a wasteland of white.

Imagine that you are playing Super Mario Bros 3. Now imagine that instead of Mario, you are a Mexican jumping bean.…

Being caught belting out the entirety of Phantom of the Opera in your living room can be pretty embarrassing. (In…