The Strategy Game Room

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

In the Super Smash Bros. Melee community, how you play can matter far more than who you are. Recently, a top Melee pl…

The Home Run Contest mode in Super Smash Brothers looks straightforward. You choose one of the game’s fighters and…

“I think we’d do better with a healer,” I suggested to my Overwatch team earlier this week. We were in the spawn…

When it was announced late last month for iOS and Android, Assassin’s Creed: Rebellion looked a bit like Ubisoft’s…

The PlayStation Vita is something of an oddity—a pricy, powerful portable gaming console adrift in a sea of…

Over the weekend, Blizzard hosted the first round of qualifiers for Overwatch’s Contenders series, aka the minor…

How much effort should today’s console makers put into keeping the classics in print and playable on modern…

My childhood friends thought the original The Legend of Zelda for the NES was easy: just gather the eight triforces…

After a two-week regimen with a pro gamer training app, I’ve made a stunning transformation into… a slightly better O…