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[This essay was given as a talk at SUNY Buffalo, 28 January 2010, the day after Howard Zinn's death. I have left…

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The PlayStation Move thrives in darkness, could enable a new kind of Greek god game, has 10 hours of battery life, a…

Whether it be the DS Lite or the DSi, Nintendo has released a spate of Nintendo DS hardware spin-offs in the last…

I care little for kart-racing games and seldom generate any user-generated content. So, to be honest, I did not rush…

Not having played every game on every platform, I was hesitant to issue genre/platform awards for my "Best Of"…

The Nintendo Download goes underground this week, dislodging sentient earthworms from the topsoil as it desperately…

What seemed great on paper — a World War II game like nothing else, with sophisticated artistry to boot — had to be…

Eleven new titles make their debut across WiiWare, DSiWare, and the Virtual Console this week, with performances by …

New Halo, new downloadables for Mass Effect, Fallout 3, and Grand Theft Auto, new Forza. It was a pretty good year…