Me and My Dinosaur

This isn’t so much a “diary” as it is an explanation. It is an explanation as to why, throughout the last week’s…

If you asked me to list some of the games I bought or played in 1994, I’d probably start off with Donkey Kong Country…

I’ve been voraciously replaying Monster Hunter: World on PC over the last few weeks, and have been having a hell of…

Video games often deal in illusions, proffering the fantasy of control and power even when your meaningful influence…

People poured money into a Kickstarter for a spiritual successor to the 1998 Nintendo 64 game Banjo-Kazooie. Why?…

Movie tie-ins are a gamble that usually ends with a lackluster game. For every Spider-Man 2, there’s a dozen games…

The core innovation of Super Mario Odyssey is Mario’s companion, Cappy. Cappy is a hat that can magically possess…

I lost my raft. Not the best way to start a game called Raft, but I soldiered on, desperately doggy-paddling through…

My friend and game development colleague Brent Porter and I throw around the term “Honest Geometry” when we talk…

I did it—I played Kingdom Hearts III, or the finely-polished vertical slice of it that Square Enix is willing to…