Bullet Hell Days

I can't think of another game so destroyed by its dialogue as Splinter Cell: Conviction; not by bad lines alone…

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

Muffins are the unsung hero of the games industry. They are the glue that binds publishers, PR, and the media…

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.…

Well, I've played twenty-five hours of Final Fantasy XIII in the past few days, and the one thing I can say with…

You press a button; a character on the television screen jumps. You press the same button again, while the on-screen…

My drummer has this story he tells sometimes, about this one time when he was drumming in some other band, and some…

Pokemon, aka "Pocket Monster Trainer", is the undisputed Biggest Video Game Property currently existing in the…

What did you get for your birthday? James got a Street Fighter IV cabinet built from scratch by his friends, the…

Excerpts from Columbine: A True Crime Story, a victim, the killers and the nation's search for answers by Jeff Kass
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