Fat Sonic

2011 is coming to an end. Best of lists and worst of lists, it's time to look back at the year that was.

Anyone who knows me knows that my second-favorite hobby (after making sure my fingernails have no white parts) is…

Up until now the best first-party Nintendo game on the 3DS was a remake of a 13-year-old Zelda game. If anyone can…

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

From exultant triumphs to powerful rushes of nostalgia, my 2010 gaming experience was peppered with memorable…

How would Tim write a Super Mario novel? Who is the David Mamet of video games? Why are gamers so inarticulate? What…

Nearly 50 years after the Bay of Pigs, Cuba's state-run press still seethes with indignation at any U.S. incursion,…

You know what the Sonic the Hedgehog series has been missing? Dangerous levels of obesity resulting in adult onset…

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…