Book of Hours: House of Light

Anyone who knows me knows that my second-favorite hobby (after making sure my fingernails have no white parts) is…

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

It has come to my attention that we might, within a few short years, find ourselves living on a planet devoid of…

How would Tim write a Super Mario novel? Who is the David Mamet of video games? Why are gamers so inarticulate? What…

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,…

After suffering through two sub-par games based on the live-action films, do Transformers fans finally have the…

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

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.…