The Creation of a Self

Upsilon Circuit was to be a game where, if you died once, you died forever and could never play again. Now it’s dead.

Jake “ChocoTaco” Throop was making a decent living as an educator in Chicago, but he’s decided to leave it all…

Ever wondered what it would look like to mash up Portal and Super Mario 64? Well, your wish has been granted.

Why do people still care about Mega Man? Capcom’s diminutive action hero hasn’t had a brand-new game since 2010's Meg…

I can’t believe 2K managed to screw this up so badly.

So, uh, I’ve been pretty fixated on the idea of a dungeon-crawl-slash-cooking show—a Dungeons & Dragons game where…

Bastion and Transistor are complicated games with emotional depth. Supergiant Games’ latest, Pyre, follows its…

David Cage, the writer/director for the upcoming Detroit: Become Human, is best in small doses. Given a single idea,…

Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Strikers might be a weird online multiplayer battle arena game instead of a traditional…

This is an excerpt from my upcoming book, BLOOD, SWEAT, AND PIXELS, which comes out on September 5 and tells the…