Dungeon Island

Yesterday, my colleague Jason Schreier and I spent 12 hours sitting on my couch and streaming video games. We ate…

Pokémon games area all about players collecting small creatures and commanding them in battle, but in the end-game…

This is an excerpt from my upcoming book, BLOOD, SWEAT, AND PIXELS, which comes out on September 5 and tells the…

My childhood friends thought the original The Legend of Zelda for the NES was easy: just gather the eight triforces…

For some people, board games are only bits of cardboard, wood or plastic. They’re just spaceship models or dungeon…

Video games often employ lots of cruel tricks in which gamers find themselves in precarious pickles—the gigantic and…

Early in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, I discovered a puzzle shrine containing a small maze. Inside that…

In the first few minutes of Final Fantasy VI, just when you think you’ve got a sense of the game’s rhythm,…

Today, how you feel about panty shots can determine how you feel about anime as a whole. And it’s not just panty…

Paying subscribers to Xbox Live can grab four games for “free” in November. The two games for the Xbox 360 are…