Challenge Party

At the end of part one of this essay on analog games, I said I'd talk about specific examples of board games to show…

Joy is a terribly underrated commodity in video games. Most of the games I play inspire all kinds of…

World of Warcraft and I never did really get along. Since its launch in 2004, I've lost track of the number of…

Street Fighter. Tekken. Game titles followed by periods. These are the sort of weighty things on the minds of video…

In 1987, a young director by the name of Hironobu Sakaguchi was charged with making a game for his small game…

"Are we there yet?"

I still remember when I saw The Blob. Not the original film, the 1988 remake. I was probably around ten years old,…

If you're in a hurry, you simply need to know that the PlayStation Vita is a very good portable video game machine…

Late in the original Zelda's second quest, I got stuck. I couldn't find the relocated and very well-hidden eighth…

Racing games on handheld systems can be a tough sell—with a smaller screen and lower hardware horsepower, it can be…