State Machine

How do you follow the biggest role-playing game of all time? How do you look at Final Fantasy VII and make something…

On a Sunday morning in September, Typhoon Talim was flooding the western part of Japan with a torrential downpour,…

Years of neglect are eroding gaming history. Cartridges rot in garages, companies hoard demos that they will never…

Imagine a 17-year-old gamer tossing a copy of the Teen-rated Star Wars Battlefront 2 onto his local GameStop’s…

The back page of Alex Hall’s economics textbook was filled with scribbles. Diagrams, notes, story beats, a web that…

After days of plunging into Fall 2017’s deep, dark anime coal mines, I have emerged with a few diamonds… and some…

Centipede was released for the arcade by Atari in 1980. It’s a game where you swerve back and forth as you fire at…

This is the Zette System, handcrafted from wood by Swedish artist Love Hultén. In its resting state it resembles a…

Microsoft kicked off their E3 2017 press conference by officially revealing their beefy new console, the $499 Xbox…

With only 114 U.S. game releases and fairly reasonable aftermarket prices, the Sega Master System is an increasingly…