Mother Is Gone

Each Wednesday brings new comics worth reading. Some of them are about video games. This month, a lot of them are…

It's one of Japan's dirty secrets. Summer after summer, parents get their gaming fix at pachinko parlors, leaving…

The trend this year in video games, only about a decade late, is to let players repel an attack on New York City.…

"Obviously, I can't bring people back to life," Jon Jacobs recently told me. Obviously.

In December of 2010, 18-year-old Alex Trowell of Idaho was on his way to visit his 12-year-old World of Warcraft…

DISARRAY | New York, New York: My new, temporary desk in Gawker HQ. (Photo by Crecente)

Sucker Punch is such a bad movie that it raises the bar for what counts as terrible. That's because there's a…

I flew back from a half week in New York last night. We got home about 11 p.m. Tomorrow morning I'm flying off to…

This is Brendan Jordan. He's 11 years-old and he racked up £1082.52 (US$1,743.90) on Xbox Live. And now, his…

An argument over a stolen gaming handheld last May led to a fatal stabbing, a guilty plea, and a sentence to 5 1/2…