The Cat and the Box

I used to have one of the hugely impractical, super-expensive controllers for the original Steel Battalion. It went…

The world of film has seen so, so many gruesome deaths. Some are funny, some are terrifying, some are nauseating.…

Not unlike reading a Murakami book or watching a Miyazaki film, playing Ni no Kuni is sort of like wandering into a…

Unlike a Wii, an Xbox 360 or a PlayStation 3, the Wii U console can't stand up.

I used to have extremely vivid dreams of flying in my teen years. They were accompanied by powerful physical…

China's first foray into creating a mainstream video game system is a solid try in the right direction, except the…

In very few games have I truly inhabited the persona of a goddam-right-I-am badass, whose demonstrations of power…

The first thing that appealed to me about Fez, an independent puzzle platforming game developed by Polytron, was how…

Many ruder-than-scientific words exist for "homosexual"; the faceless internet crams my inbox with them every day.

In all my 38-plus years on this great spinning dirt ball of ours I've never once heard a person exclaim, "Hooray,…