The Wild Rings

It’s not the loot boxes that bummed me out about October’s Shadow of War. When playing the game, you can easily…

The video games of 2017 were’t just fun to play; they were fun to listen to.

In March 2013, Skyrim composer Jeremy Soule used Kickstarter to raise $121,227 for a new album. Four and a half…

Fewer and fewer new releases find their way into arcades these days. Even the latest version of Street Fighter, a…

When Shadow of Mordor released in 2014, its “nemesis system” was brilliant enough that many people hoped it would…

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

From time to time, I’ll make a stunt out of my interviews with video game professionals. I’ll do this when they’re…

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild does not dole out rewards predictably. Often you’ll spend an afternoon…

Between a catalog of killer games on the Genesis and the Archie Comic series, Sonic the Hedgehog was a fixture of my…

For as long as humans have dreamed, we’ve dreamed of flying. We’ve built machines to launch us into the heavens,…