Fuck Typing

When I play horror games, I expect to get weirded out. It's part of the fun! The Static Speaks My Name, however, was…

For many people—even many gamers—"toxicity" and League of Legends go hand-in-hand. The game has a longstanding…

The Blood-Starved Beast has poisoned me. I've run out of antidote and health potions, but I'm not willing to die.…

"I'm very new to this," I typed, "just to warn y'all." A second later, someone responded: "You're a smurf, aren't…

Typing of the Dead: Overkill is amazing already. It's a game where you kill zombies by typing words like "Brains".…

Earthbound! Etrian Odyssey! Shin Megami Tensei! It's time for part two of This Year In JRPGs So Far, with special…

The following is an excerpt from Earthbound, Ken Baumann's upcoming book about Nintendo's cult classic 1994 RPG.

It‘s almost midnight and I have spent the last hour killing myself over and over and over again.

I can summarize my experience designing user interfaces like this: if you were to place a refrigerator and a toilet…

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