Complex Doom

Early last year, seventy French university students sat down in a room. A group of scientists told the students they…

SpeedDemosArchive—home to, amazingly, high-speed video game playthroughs by talented players—is entering the last…

Many people who went to film school will tell you that film school made them hate watching films. In a similar…

When PC role-playing classic Baldur's Gate was released in 1998, I was writing for a small gaming news site called…

Windows 8 has its problems. Some of these are immediate, others hypothetical (and potentially graver in nature). But…

People become gamers by accident, usually when they're young. A school-friend's console turns them into one. Or a…

A colleague IM'd me earlier today, asking if I was ready for video games to take the blame for this morning's awful…

Thirty minutes. That's all I need. Thirty minutes to decide whether or not a role-playing game is worth playing.

Look, I'm under no illusions about jazz music's unpopularity. I grew up playing jazz, went to school to study jazz,…

In the fall of 1992, my father drove me to a nondescript computer store in Alpharetta, Georgia and changed my life.…