Engine Room

As a developer on Train Simulator 2014, I spend somewhere between 40 to 9,000 hours a week trying to solve one…

One piece of trivia orbits modern board gaming like a dark, sexy star. Someone who doesn't really play them will…

You can turn an Xbox One on (and off) using voice commands. Handy for the home, but in the workplace? There's room…

Like many of the millions of Americans who got Grand Theft Auto V on or soon after its Sept. 17 release, I spent…

It began with an idea. David Cage sits at his desk, but he can’t write. He looks for an image. He can’t remember the…

Wednesday night, he was having anxiety attacks over his designs for next year's game. Thursday afternoon, it didn't…

When Brad Meyer wants to create fire, he doesn't just light a match. He rubs two pieces of charcoal together, then…

The history of Madden NFL in the age of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 is a history of inconsistent execution, of…

I didn't fully appreciate the next generation of consoles until last Friday, when I got the chance to play Skylanders…

For more than two years, 105 people at Microsoft have been trying to improve the video game controller. The results…