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From its bittersweet debut trailer to its brutally gore-ified combat, Dead Island has captured the attention of…

In Josh Bear's happy dream, Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of Donkey Kong and Super Mario, was sitting on a toilet.

Because I tried to please everyone, my Commander Shepard didn't get laid the first time I played Mass Effect 2.…

How would Tim write a Super Mario novel? Who is the David Mamet of video games? Why are gamers so inarticulate? What…

Is Super Mario Bros. 2 bad? Was the Sonic series ever good? Who is the Ben Kingsley of video games? What does that…

The other day, I mentioned to my friend of 10 years that I was doing research on massively multiplayer online…

A globe of fire temporarily replaced a portion of the blackness on the horizon. The fire shimmered close to where my…

People always ask me what I do. I guess I look like the kind of guy who you'd be curious what I do. I'm pretty sure…

This is how you make friends and influence people in the Information Age (as a writer, anyway):

I've lived in Japan for a long time. When I first came here, I liked living here. Now, I don't. I haven't changed.…