Master of the Grid

Deadspin writer and Chopped champion Drew Magary wrote a new book, The Hike, which comes out next week. Since the…

There’s a lot to like about the new XCOM game, but perhaps the coolest thing about it has little to do with tactics,…

“This piece of the game is supposed to be difficult,” the game designer Jonathan Blow recently said to me as we…

The folks at Storybundle just launched a new pay-what-you-want eBook bundle about video games. Part of it is a new…

Action figures and tiny vinyl statues are great for taking up work real estate and making employers question…

Adrian Tomine creates the kinds of comics that you don’t want to recognize yourself in. They’re the polar opposite…

I played bomb disarming Steam sensation Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes with my girlfriend. That might’ve been a…

Imperial Assault is a board game that was released in late 2014. I only got around to playing it over the weekend,…

Back in 1994, I spent time — far, far too much time — trying to make the combat system in this game work for me; I…

Let’s get straight to it: for some of you, Invisible, Inc. will be close to the perfect video game.