Falling Ball Space

In 1985 Jordan Mechner was a student at Yale riding high on a mix of euphoria over the surprise success of his first…

A big criticism of EA Sports' annual games, and one that I for the most part agree with, is that each new version is…

Were you nose-deep in a good book and miss out on your favorite Gawker Media sites this week? In need of some visual…

Motion control neither revitalized nor ruined video games in 2010, the year when finally everyone was doing it. You…

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

The former head of the Game Developers Conference and current Electronic Arts indie headhunter just published his…

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

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

The summers of my childhood were marked with scars. Good scars, not bad ones.

Is there some rule among game developers that all creepy space aliens have to look like vaginas with teeth? If so,…