Parallel Turn

Comic books still exist. And there are new ones today. You can buy them in shops. You can download them digitally…

The road to 343 Industries' Halo 4 begins today with the release of Halo: Glasslands, the beginning of a new series…

Batman: Arkham City, like other Game of the Year contenders that are in its league, should be praised both for what…

Jonathan Blow is a video game developer whose critics call pretentious and grouchy.

When Grand Theft Auto IV came out, I was swept away. The scope, depth, and scale of the game were almost too much to…

I have this silly daydream of a Kinect-enabled baseball game. In it, you can call for your runner to steal by going…

Back in 2007 I read an article on BoingBoing about a small "museum" of Soviet-era video games that had been opened…

Some time last year, I landed in Los Angeles. I was catching a connecting flight, the bane of the expedient…

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

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