Driving Alone at Night

How would Tim write a Super Mario novel? Who is the David Mamet of video games? Why are gamers so inarticulate? What…

Is Super Mario Bros. 2 bad? Was the Sonic series ever good? Who is the Ben Kingsley of video games? What does that…

Most video games, even the craziest ones, are about very real things. Driving. Shooting. Flying. And the more you…

I've never been much for online multiplayer. I play video games to get away from other people, I always say. I like…

A globe of fire temporarily replaced a portion of the blackness on the horizon. The fire shimmered close to where my…

Microsoft let me play a finished copy of Halo Reach on one of their Xbox 360s today. They even let me save my…

People always ask me what I do. I guess I look like the kind of guy who you'd be curious what I do. I'm pretty sure…

How did I get to E3? How did I get a VIP pass? I don't even know. The idea was that I would walk up to E3 and,…

I've always been quite sensitive to certain types of friction. (I considered writing that sentence 10 different…

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