School Years: Episode 2

Maybe you couldn't keep up with your favorite Gawker Media sites this week. Or perhaps you could just use something…

Swag | Sometimes the freebies that arrive on my doorstep kinda go together. (Photo: Brian Crecente)

The spring season of video games usually starts busy, then slows. But last year's spring produced Kotaku's 2010 Game…

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

This morning's Supreme Court hearing about video games was full of feisty exchanges about free speech and protecting…

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…

I've always been quite sensitive to certain types of friction. (I considered writing that sentence 10 different…

My current least favorite part of the modern video game is when it tells me to stop having fun for a few minutes so…

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

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.…