The Speaker

A laptop computer is an amazing confluence of technology, condensing an entire desktop full of hardware into a…

Jason Rohrer (Passage, Sleep Is Death) thought it’d be fun to train an AI to create fake Magic: The Gathering card names

This is the GameShell, a retro gaming handheld that I built from a kit. I clipped and trimmed the plastic pieces,…

Yesterday, Japan’s foreign minister asked the English-language media to write Japanese family names first, as done…

Pokemon Detective Pikachu hit theaters this weekend and contains many CGI recreations of famous Pokemon creatures.…

Days Gone is an extremely big, long video game that is full of post-apocalyptic things to do, but also not terribly…

In July of 2017, I realized I’d never played Final Fantasy VII since learning Japanese. I decided to do so, and make…

When I talk to people about the Phoenix Wright series, I often find myself adopting the idiosyncrasies of a crazed…

It’s April 1 again, the day when everyone and every brand’s got jokes. Some of them are good. Most of them are bad.…

Every Pokemon is interesting and worth talking about. I don’t play a ton of Pokemon, but I do enjoy the universe and…