Engine Room

Much as I automatically deny it, video games have influenced every element of my life in some way.

Some day soon, Nvidia's CEO Jen-Hsun Huang is going to walk on stage at some obscure electronics industry event and…

Previewed this spring, the list of Madden NFL 12's improvements to its Franchise campaign read like a letter to…

Mass Effect is a series that blends a few different gaming genres together. Side-scrolling brawler isn't one of…

Jonathan Blow is a video game developer whose critics call pretentious and grouchy.

I mean no disrespect when I say this: I couldn't give a dragon's ass about the story in Skyrim. It may well be…

This afternoon, in an empty conference room inside the Hilton Anatole—a bizarre amalgam of hotel, conference center,…

For a time, years, whenever a person talked about a first-person shooter they called it a Doom Clone. Such was the…

There's something seemingly scandalous, irreverent about Simon Meek's notion of "playing through" novels like Crime…

It's perhaps the most iconic design in the world of game controllers, and definitely the longest-serving. Today in…