The Door in the Basement

Ten years ago, I began my career in the gaming industry by signing on to help with the imminent launch of Dark Age…

Is it a game? Is it a manifesto? An artsy-fartsy waste of time? A story-within-a-story, an exercise in branching…

Back in 2007 I read an article on BoingBoing about a small "museum" of Soviet-era video games that had been opened…

Osama bin Laden hunches quietly in the darkness of an Abbottabad basement, rifle clutched in his hands. He swivels…

There's a reason most people remember The Super Mario Bros. Super Show or The Wizard when they think of ‘90s…

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

The other day, I mentioned to my friend of 10 years that I was doing research on massively multiplayer online…

Nintendo is warning players away from Metroid: Other M's potentially game-breaking locked door bug in Sector 3, but…

People always ask me what I do. I guess I look like the kind of guy who you'd be curious what I do. I'm pretty sure…

Jeff Hickman's house got struck by lightning last spring. It destroyed two of his three game consoles, zapped his…