The Island of Lost Hope

I never thought my favorite part of a Hironobu Sakaguchi game would be the battle system, especially since Final…

In Final Fantasy VI, the villains triumph. It’s one of the most shocking moments in gaming. As devastating at the…

On a Sunday morning in September, Typhoon Talim was flooding the western part of Japan with a torrential downpour,…

Returning to his classic video game shop Neo Japan Games in the weeks after Hurricane Maria, Jerry Robles thought…

It was 2am in early September. Yuichiro Takahashi was in his room eating a Crunky chocolate bar, listening to the RWB…

For all its extraordinary visual splendor, Assassin’s Creed Origins is ultimately an ordinary video game. That’s not…

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

After a run of mediocre to downright disappointing releases, DC Comics finally gets a movie worth eating overpriced…

Every morning, I run a pick through my hair. It’s important that I do this when it’s still spongy and damp from the…

One of Minecraft’s more remarkable side-effects is how it gave rise to (or, indeed, popularised) an entirely new…