An Engineer and the Great Machine

In an early mission of The Bureau: XCOM Declassified, a deer clattered across the pavement of a wrecked college…

At the start of a cocktail party that was to end an exciting, bewildering and altogether odd day at Microsoft's…

The answering machine goes off. It's Ellie, trying to get a hold of Isaac Clarke. He doesn't answer. He's standing…

This year, legends walk the silver screen. From Captain Kirk to Superman, our greatest heroes are back, and facing…

Click, kill, loot, level up. Click, kill, loot, level up. Loot, sell, re-equip. Rinse, repeat. Your weapons get more…

In 1985 Jordan Mechner was a student at Yale riding high on a mix of euphoria over the surprise success of his first…

Back in 2007 I read an article on BoingBoing about a small "museum" of Soviet-era video games that had been opened…

Almost two millennia before the rest of humanity entered the industrial age, the Greek inventor Hero invented the…

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 is the second in a series of posts labeled "Hindsight" that discuss games you may have thought we were done…