Mother Simulator

In the autumn of 2006 the game designer Brenda Romero suffered what she describes as a severe assault. In the weeks…

On the third floor of Nintendo’s U.S. headquarters, next to the conference rooms named after Mario and Donkey Kong,…

Torture sequences in games are old news—many major franchises have included it in some capacity, from the classics…

Few new games this week, probably because Mother's Day is a week from now. And don't you feel awful for looking for…

Welcome to 2013, the year that shall go down in history as the one that started with every being in my household…

Every Friday afternoon, the staff of Xseed Games have a meeting. They sit in a conference room, break out the booze,…

Over the weekend, two men sent me two very different messages regarding last Friday's massacre at Sandy Hook…

People become gamers by accident, usually when they're young. A school-friend's console turns them into one. Or a…

The tale of how one man from Canada became the kind of person who pays a monthly fee to cheat at video games is like…

It's already a matter of record that Anders Behring Breivik wrote about using Call of Duty to hone his marksmanship…