Straight Ahead

The idea of being a Dungeon Master in a tabletop RPG is, understandably, pretty daunting. A table full of people…

The initial technological threat in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty is Metal Gear RAY. It is an “anti-Metal…

About five minutes into the Resident Evil 3 remake, I uttered the word “brilliant.” I don’t use that word often. I…

Let’s say you’re an up-and-coming streamer. You’ve done it for a while and you make decent money, although you’re no…

A Netflix reality TV show lets contestants “catfish” each other in competition for a $100,000 prize. But just like…

Now that it’s 2020, I keep thinking about how it felt to be a woman writing about gender in video games back in 2010.

Fighting games have never been as big or monetarily supported as they were in 2019. Every major fighting game…

Pilgrim In The Microworld, a 1983 book by professor, sociologist, and musician David Sudnow, was far ahead of its…

It’s obvious that parking your butt on the couch for several hours straight playing a game isn’t good for you, but…

Death Stranding is a big and strange game full of ghost battling and bridge building. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed…