A Thousand Words to Tell I Love You

The other day, I mentioned to my friend of 10 years that I was doing research on massively multiplayer online…

A globe of fire temporarily replaced a portion of the blackness on the horizon. The fire shimmered close to where my…

People always ask me what I do. I guess I look like the kind of guy who you'd be curious what I do. I'm pretty sure…

How did I get to E3? How did I get a VIP pass? I don't even know. The idea was that I would walk up to E3 and,…

I've always been quite sensitive to certain types of friction. (I considered writing that sentence 10 different…

My current least favorite part of the modern video game is when it tells me to stop having fun for a few minutes so…

[This essay was given as a talk at SUNY Buffalo, 28 January 2010, the day after Howard Zinn's death. I have left…

This is how you make friends and influence people in the Information Age (as a writer, anyway):

Our guy in Tokyo has descended upon San Francisco's Game Developers Conference. We asked him for a report. This is…

I've lived in Japan for a long time. When I first came here, I liked living here. Now, I don't. I haven't changed.…