Talk to Strangers

Video games are changing. Increasingly, we're seeing a subset of players focus their attention on one single video…

Four months into its existence, Destiny is a better, more frustrating, more expansive—and ultimately, expensive—game…

This year, I left my hometown of New York City to go west to Los Angeles for the holidays. I took my PS4 with me to…

Four years ago, an account named “PewDiePie” uploaded a video to YouTube. It was about Minecraft. The video featured…

Right now it is 8.42pm on Monday night. I was supposed to be playing a video game.

Maybe you're in it for the cute monsters. Maybe you're in it to be the very best, like no one ever was. Or maybe you…

Dragon Age: Inquisition is a fantasy game. That word—fantasy—is a sort of shorthand, with a bunch of connotations.…

Until this week, I'd never played The Sims.

I tried to be as evil as possible in The Sims 4, and I was not disappointed.

Don't play games online, they say. If you have to play games online, turn off chat. If you have to turn on chat,…