Escape Artist

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My current least favorite part of the modern video game is when it tells me to stop having fun for a few minutes so…

[This essay was given as a talk at SUNY Buffalo, 28 January 2010, the day after Howard Zinn's death. I have left…

In Jason Rohrer there's a fascinating schism between the tone of the work and that of the designer.

This morning a videogame literally forced me to say "I love you", enunciating every syllable perfectly, clearly…

My drummer has this story he tells sometimes, about this one time when he was drumming in some other band, and some…

Nintendo of America has laid out its plans for the upcoming holiday shopping season—and a little bit beyond—dating a…

Bob Dylan once told a journalist that the first time he heard a recording of Elvis Presley singing "That's All…

It's a regular occurrence. Open my email, and time after time, there the question is, staring me in the face: How…

1975, Jaws — "It was the Village East theater in Birmingham, Alabama. And we rode in my sister's husband's Trans…