Far from Noise

I've just this minute finished the single-player campaign for Modern Warfare 3. It leaves a very bitter taste at its…

What do you want out of a video game? What should you hold against a video game, and what should you let slide?

Before the folks at 343 Industries can prove to us they are a worthy successor to the Halo development throne, they…

Imagine you live in a future ruled by robots. It's not that hard—between Milo, Siri, and their pet AIBO, we're about…

The road to 343 Industries' Halo 4 begins today with the release of Halo: Glasslands, the beginning of a new series…

Just two months ahead of release, Battlefield 3's singleplayer mode remains something of a mystery – oddly so, given…

Earlier this week I got several versions of a small talk question I always field this time of year: "I haven't…

Of all the things that Batman: Arkham Asylum had going for it—and there were a lot of them—my favorite thing was…

Simulation-quality sports video games all now ship with some kind of solo career mode, in which you create or…

Is it a game? Is it a manifesto? An artsy-fartsy waste of time? A story-within-a-story, an exercise in branching…