Pushing Hands: Fighting Game

In the wake of the international success of Persona 5 and Dragon Quest XI, perhaps it’s time for publishers to take…

It wasn’t even supposed to be called Anthem. Just days before the annual E3 convention in June of 2017, when the…

Gail Gygax and I were sitting in the living room of a lace-trimmed, flower-filled bed and breakfast in Lake Geneva,…

When Georgia police arrested Thomas Cheung, a well-known Twitch streamer and World of Warcraft community figure, as…

In mid-2016, a few months before the release of their first game, Mafia III, the developers at Hangar 13 in Novato,…

In the first years of my career as a games writer, I got used to a certain reaction from my parents’ friends when…

If Football—that is, the American National Football League football—used the same naming scheme as “Dungeons &…

Do you remember Death Cargo? The obscure Mortal Kombat-inspired brawler from an Italian studio Necrostorm known for…

This is an excerpt from my upcoming book, BLOOD, SWEAT, AND PIXELS, which comes out on September 5 and tells the…

Manga pirates have operated in the internet’s shadows for decades, hiding from furious publishers whose translation…