Brain Wars

Food is such an important part of our lives, so I’m always curious about its portrayal in games, especially the…

It is the future. A young man, arms strong from competing with 100 other shoppers every day to be the only person to…

Ask veteran gamers whether it’s possible to get too hooked on a game and they might have stories of a World of…

This weekend, the New York Times reported on the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, which apparently…

Imagine a 17-year-old gamer tossing a copy of the Teen-rated Star Wars Battlefront 2 onto his local GameStop’s…

In December of 1999, at the tender age of eleven, I received Donkey Kong 64. It was a birthday gift from my parents…

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

For some people, board games are only bits of cardboard, wood or plastic. They’re just spaceship models or dungeon…

Warning: If you haven’t played Deus Ex, but have maybe bought it in a Steam Sale as something you’re absolutely…

In the first few minutes of Final Fantasy VI, just when you think you’ve got a sense of the game’s rhythm,…