Nov 17 2015
4
This has been a very good year for video games, but it has been an exceptional year for books about video…
Chris Suellentrop
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Nov 13 2015
39
I didn’t realize I hated my Xbox One until I loaded Fallout 3 on it and felt all warm and fuzzy when I saw the Xbox…
Nov 10 2015
14
Approaching Fallout 4 like a tourist isn’t easy. There aren’t as many Bostonians around as there are in present-day…
Nov 9 2015
33
I’m 20 hours into Fallout 4, and I still don’t know whether I like it. That’s a testament to the game’s virtues as…
Nov 6 2015
4
I’m a confirmed believer in the church of video games, a sect whose faith has been rewarded over the past decade, as…
Nov 3 2015
66
I have a confession to make. I read the comments. Actually, it’s worse than that. I don’t just read the comments, I e…
Oct 30 2015
30
Bob Whitaker, a historian of modern Britain at Louisiana Tech and the host of the YouTube series History Respawned,…
Oct 28 2015
23
In the fall of 2006, the New Yorker and the New York Times Magazine published dueling Spore previews in the span of…
Oct 23 2015
2
Where is a guy supposed to dump a body around here? Here is a three-minute video—taken from a late-game mission but…
Oct 23 2015
31
Assassin’s Creed Syndicate is—wait for it—an Assassin’s Creed game, with all that that implies.
Oct 16 2015
44
Super Mario 4D Universe—or whatever the next one will be called—should come with every single level in the Mushroom…
Oct 16 2015
10
People are interested in Introversion’s very good sim Prison Architect because it tries to model the complexities of…
Oct 14 2015
9
You won’t be shocked to learn that watching Bernie Sanders shout about email is not virtual reality’s killer app. I…
Oct 12 2015
15
Almost a decade ago, a majority of the Republicans in Congress voted to pass a prison reform bill called the Second…
Oct 7 2015
33
My favorite film critic, A.O. Scott of the New York Times, is trying to reclaim the word “snob” for people of…
Oct 2 2015
12
This picture of a mouse might be the scariest thing I encountered in all of SOMA. Now that I’m not playing the game,…
Oct 2 2015
28
SOMA is a standout game, and one of the many ways it distinguishes itself is through its restrained use of…
Sep 30 2015
2
Lifeline is supposed to be the best game for the Apple Watch. Like you, I suspect, I don’t own an Apple Watch. I do…
Sep 25 2015
11
“When it comes to probing questions about their intimate life as computer-game players, most people don’t have much…
Sep 24 2015
17
As I write this, Venom Snake is waiting in a Porta Potty north of Kabul during a sandstorm. I feel a little bad…