The Fear Island

On Christmas, like many people all around the world, I spent some quality time with my siblings hunched around a…

According to Mychal “Trihex” Jefferson, there really isn’t much of a difference between speedrunning video games and…

Since Fortnite announced its battle royale mode, there’s been a little, uh, tension between its developer Epic Games…

I’ve put 81 hours into Divinity: Original Sin 2 over the last 12 days. When I wasn’t playing, I was thinking about…

I got the new Metroid on Tuesday but waited two days to start it. I’d waited a long time for this, and I wanted the…

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

For many of Dragon Quest VII’s overwhelmingly depressing storylines, I spent time saving and hanging out with people…

For some people, board games are only bits of cardboard, wood or plastic. They’re just spaceship models or dungeon…

Video games often employ lots of cruel tricks in which gamers find themselves in precarious pickles—the gigantic and…

Batman: Arkham Knight spins one of the most ambitious video game stories ever told, and watching it thunder to its…