Black My White Again

This story didn’t happen to me. Not really. But some nights, it felt like it could have.

The back page of Alex Hall’s economics textbook was filled with scribbles. Diagrams, notes, story beats, a web that…

For all its extraordinary visual splendor, Assassin’s Creed Origins is ultimately an ordinary video game. That’s not…

There was a time, so many years ago now, when it felt like we had too much Metroid. The simultaneous launch of Prime…

When I first got Stardew Valley last December, I spent days playing it. To date, I have 70 hours on record. I…

I got the new Metroid on Tuesday but waited two days to start it. I’d waited a long time for this, and I wanted the…

“If you hold on life won’t change.”

Over the weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, white supremacists held a rally that escalated into violence. An…

This is an excerpt from my upcoming book, BLOOD, SWEAT, AND PIXELS, which comes out on September 5 and tells the…

Hyper-realistic images are becoming a thing in Splatoon 2, so I decided to make my very own. All it took was an…