Kate Cox's posts

In 1983, Electronic Arts published a four-player, turn-based strategy game developed by a little company called…

Some games stay with you even when you're not playing them. Sometimes, you get so deeply into a game that you need…

Over the decades and centuries, many conventions we now take for granted in film, literature, photography, and so…

The good news is, we saw a lot of really good-looking games at E3 this year. Some we've known about for a while;…

I've been playing a lot of Civ V on my PC lately. That's probably why it was the first, immediate point of…

Ever since playing a preview of the upcoming Civilization V expansion a few weeks ago I've been, as I predicted,…

Sometimes a frenemy just isn't enough.

The last thing I did at E3 last week, before going to LAX and heading home, was to meet with some gentlemen from…

While E3 was occupying everyone's attention last week, Nintendo held an analyst event for their investors. During th…

The world of massively multiplayer online games keeps getting, well, more massive. We've come a long way since I…

PC designer Jeffrey Stephenson, whose work we have featured before, is back with his latest creation. There are case…

The idea behind Sir, You Are Being Hunted is, well, exactly what it sounds like. Man's greatest enemy is man.…

With games, the whole "ancillary media" thing is usually just not my style. I read and loved all of the Myst books,…

This is kind of amazing: one gamer, over on Reddit, has been playing the same save game of Civilization II off and…

When we get mired in arguing over whether or not games are harmful to impressionable young players, it's easy to…

A society leaves behind a pretty decent map of its psychology in the culture it creates. For example, the 1950s…

I've mentioned before that I have a soft spot for Larian's Divinity franchise, dating back to 2003. Their games have…

I was six years old when Star Trek: The Next Generation premiered. For the next seven years, I watched it every…