Abstract World

With their next Mario game, it once again appears that Nintendo is trying to have it both ways. I'm not complaining.

The most common email response I received to my previous column ("Japan: It's Not Funny Anymore") was a perplexed…

The news this morning that Konami will publish Def Jam Rapstar raises hope among the hip-hop-minded among us that…

Excerpts from the book Expressive Processing. Reprinted with express permission of the author.

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

As I covered in the feature on box art and game logos I did last week, putting together a game's cover isn't as easy…

You see them every day, whether browsing in a store, clicking through the internet or looking at a shelf in your…

Will Wright was on a recon mission on Tuesday in New York City. On a snowy day on Manhattan's West Side, one of…

We can't all be rock stars. Or can we? Why can't we all be rock stars? Who says we can't all be rock stars?

Steve Gaynor, a designer at 2K Marin, understands that he works in an entertainment field, and provides a product…