Chris Suellentrop's posts

This has been a very good year for video games, but it has been an exceptional year for books about video…

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…

Approaching Fallout 4 like a tourist isn’t easy. There aren’t as many Bostonians around as there are in present-day…

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…

I’m a confirmed believer in the church of video games, a sect whose faith has been rewarded over the past decade, as…

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…

Bob Whitaker, a historian of modern Britain at Louisiana Tech and the host of the YouTube series History Respawned,…

In the fall of 2006, the New Yorker and the New York Times Magazine published dueling Spore previews in the span of…

Where is a guy supposed to dump a body around here? Here is a three-minute video—taken from a late-game mission but…

Assassin’s Creed Syndicate is—wait for it—an Assassin’s Creed game, with all that that implies.

Super Mario 4D Universe—or whatever the next one will be called—should come with every single level in the Mushroom…

People are interested in Introversion’s very good sim Prison Architect because it tries to model the complexities of…

You won’t be shocked to learn that watching Bernie Sanders shout about email is not virtual reality’s killer app. I…

Almost a decade ago, a majority of the Republicans in Congress voted to pass a prison reform bill called the Second…

My favorite film critic, A.O. Scott of the New York Times, is trying to reclaim the word “snob” for people of…

This picture of a mouse might be the scariest thing I encountered in all of SOMA. Now that I’m not playing the game,…

SOMA is a standout game, and one of the many ways it distinguishes itself is through its restrained use of…

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…

“When it comes to probing questions about their intimate life as computer-game players, most people don’t have much…

As I write this, Venom Snake is waiting in a Porta Potty north of Kabul during a sandstorm. I feel a little bad…