The Chinese Room

At the start of the summer, as the world roiled from multiple crises, something unusual and essential happened in…

Early September, 1999. Britney Spears dominated the airwaves, fear of the Y2K bug hung in the air, and my teenage…

In Little Orpheus, the latest game from Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture developer The Chinese Room, Soviet cosmonaut…

In the past few days, an alarming headline has made the rounds: “Half of Fox News viewers think Bill Gates is using…

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

In a 2016 interview, Escape From Tarkov designer Pavel Dyatlov said women weren’t in the game because they ”can’t…

Japan is known for its video arcades, from the tiniest little collections of claw games in basements to entire…

Look at this piece of gaming hardware, all panels and buttons and weird pokey bits. This is the Mad Catz R.A.T. 8+…

I don’t know a lot about Fate/Stay Night, a 2004 adult visual novel about stylized historical figures battling over…