Loop Line

Twenty years ago today, Sega released the first Sonic the Hedgehog videogame. It was a joyous occasion—and it was…

I think the moment where Anomaly Warzone Earth—I don't see a colon on the game's website; letting all three words of…

There are games you can play in a very loud nightclub, with public relations people hovering, reporters sharing the…

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

A globe of fire temporarily replaced a portion of the blackness on the horizon. The fire shimmered close to where my…

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

You could say that video game music is becoming much more epic as the years go by.

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

An average high school student learns the painful answer to the question of why there are no real superheroes in…

The most common email response I received to my previous column ("Japan: It's Not Funny Anymore") was a perplexed…