The Idle

The name’s Narcisse. Yeah, numbnuts, I’ve heard all the jokes. I’m a newspaperman. No matter how hard I try every…

It’s a harsh wasteland out there, fellow vault dwellers. Horrors can be found in every corner of the Commonwealth.…

When last I wrote about the new Need for Speed it was a bit messy—rubberband AI and stuttering made racing…

With only weeks to go until the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, everyone has Star Wars fever. Over the…

Some people actually liked Jurassic World. Good for them. For the rest of us, news that a video game had been in…

There is a good chance I am having more fun pretending to be Iron Man with Disney’s PlayMation toys than any child…

I have not raged as hard at a video game this year as I have Gears of War: Ultimate Edition—and it’s all because of…

When the credits rolled on SOMA, my head fell into my hands. I felt relief that the harrowing journey was over, and…

We Are Chicago was hardly the best game I played at PAX, one of gaming’s biggest gaming conventions, last month. It…

“Blondes make the best victims,” said filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock to CBS in 1977. “They’re like virgin snow that…