Physical Simulation Guy

In basketball, it was the three-point line, or the reintroduction of the zone defense. In baseball, it's the…

Spec Ops: The Line takes place beneath a sea of sand, deep within the Arabian Desert. In the game's fiction, the…

Steam Box. Gabecube. Steam Engine. And, of course, Orange Box. If Valve Corporation is planning to offer a so-called…

Looking over the field of candidates for the Madden NFL 13 cover, I'm thinking of what William Munny said before he…

Considering the source, it's an unlikely statement. When Oregon was marching to a No. 1 ranking and a berth in the…

The more true-to-life the machine simulation, the more repulsive humans find it. That's the "uncanny valley." After…

The most common email response I received to my previous column ("Japan: It's Not Funny Anymore") was a perplexed…

Our guy in Tokyo has descended upon San Francisco's Game Developers Conference. We asked him for a report. This is…

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.…

The Nintendo Download goes underground this week, dislodging sentient earthworms from the topsoil as it desperately…