Politics and War

If you’re a well-heeled sci-fi fan, you probably know about the rarely-seen rough draft of Star Wars. It’s crazy…

I was reminded of how powerful big-budget video games can be—yet how frustratingly tame they often remain—while I…

Before Sid Meier was Sid Meier—the iconic video game designer whose name is stamped on classic titles like Pirates!…

Crime is a constant feature of video games writing. Somewhere, someone is doing something illicit with them—sometimes…

There's a point, maybe around an hour in, where you might feel a little disappointed with The Old Gods, a new Viking…

Two Chinese companies are being taken to court by developers Wargaming.net, accused of stealing intellectual…

Last week, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ticked off people in South Korea and China. This weekend, he hung out…

The headlines around the world about Sean Smith last year were mostly about how he left this Earth. But this is a…

I always found Metal Gear Solid 4 to be not a brilliant game, but a fascinating one. A mad ideologue glutted with…

Games can be about a lot of different things. They can be about war or romance, politics or zombies, or everyday…