Thousand Land

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

My current least favorite part of the modern video game is when it tells me to stop having fun for a few minutes so…

Japan isn't only The Land of the Rising Sun. It's also The Land of Xbox 360 Indifference. There must be a way to…

[This essay was given as a talk at SUNY Buffalo, 28 January 2010, the day after Howard Zinn's death. I have left…

I've lived in Japan for a long time. When I first came here, I liked living here. Now, I don't. I haven't changed.…

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You press a button; a character on the television screen jumps. You press the same button again, while the on-screen…

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You can argue whether games end as art, but there's no debating how they start. Behind every shooter, every action…

By: Kotaku Staff