The Talking Words Factory

John Davidson is dead broke. Yesterday he arrived in Garbage City. Jobless, circling the block in his car—his last…

Many ruder-than-scientific words exist for "homosexual"; the faceless internet crams my inbox with them every day.

I was designing a user interface for someone else's social game the other day, and I was completely oblivious that…

Earlier this week, Kotaku told you about how a large number of employees at a Foxconn factory in China had…

Music games aren't what they used to be, and in some cases, the world is safer for that. Video game expert Scott…

The heat was unbearable. A group of kids scurried to find shade, but they did't find it under trees.

Some time ago, game designer Ken Levine commented wryly about the shallow pool from which video game creators get…

If we ran a video game company, maybe, just maybe, those of us who play video games would be like John Riccitiello.…

I've always been quite sensitive to certain types of friction. (I considered writing that sentence 10 different…

If gamers most care about whether games are any good — not whether stock prices are rising — then what to make of…