The Amazing Brain Train

When I traded correspondence with writer David Brothers last week, I made the argument that video games needs its…

There is a story my friend Daphny likes to tell. She calls it one of the worst experiences of her life. It involves…

If there's anything Telltale's The Walking Dead game has taught me about myself, it's that come the post-apocalypse,…

I was designing a user interface for someone else's social game the other day, and I was completely oblivious that…

The Quantum Thief, released in the UK last year and in the U.S. this month, is a heist story set in a future of…

Using the vast power of science, researchers at Kyoto University in Japan have found another good reason for a…

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

Is Super Mario Bros. 2 bad? Was the Sonic series ever good? Who is the Ben Kingsley of video games? What does that…

How did I get to E3? How did I get a VIP pass? I don't even know. The idea was that I would walk up to E3 and,…

Just because this week's Nintendo Download doesn't contain much in the way of recognizable titles doesn't mean there…