Machine Match

At 9:15 am Thursday morning, Donald Mustard, the creative director at Chair Studios, sits next to me on a couch in a…

Following the rules and doing what I’m ‘supposed’ to do in life are troublesome ideas to me.

If Portal taught me anything, it's that any machine possessing even the most rudimentary degree of artificial…

Less than 24 hours since the website The Verge reported that Valve is working on a video game console, we've got…

At E3 in June, I watched Konami's Shinta Nojiri play NeverDead and struggle to reassemble his dismembered, immortal…

There's this thing about fighting games—you really have to play them. They're like a musical instrument, like a drum…

Good Luck, Link | You're going to need it and a sword. (Image via Cracked.com.)

This story starts, as so many great ones do, with a classified ad: "I will take bullets for you," it read.

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

When he got the vision floater in his right eye that morning at work, Mikey Neumann figured in the next 30 minutes…