Crazy Designer

In February of 2011, fresh off nine months of 80-hour work weeks, Jessica Chavez took a pair of scissors to her…

Veteran designer Sid Meier has over the years been behind—or at least lent his name to—some of the greatest games of…

I watched a man tearfully avenge his dear old dog, freshly murdered by a dastardly raider, and then cook and eat it i…

When Microsoft unbundled Kinect from the Xbox One in 2014, it was the beginning of the end. Unfortunately for the…

“So what does a game designer do? Are you an artist? Do you design characters and write the story? Or no, wait,…

Say you want to have a party. You want it to be the most incredible party on the planet, one that all of your…

My parents didn’t like video games; I was forbidden from playing them when I was growing up. So, most of the “games”…

It’s 2 A.M. on March 20 in France and Ta-Nehisi Coates is not sleeping. “I’m up learning to make maps so I can make…

I had a long, entertaining chat with Ta-Nehisi Coates two weeks before the first issue of the new Black Panther…

Baldur’s Gate is one of the most revered RPG series in video game history. It helped write the book on Western-style…