War On Terrorism

There’s a lot to like about the new XCOM game, but perhaps the coolest thing about it has little to do with tactics,…

This August, Hello Kitty wants you to think about peace.

In 2009, a strange Facebook account appeared out of nowhere and friended people en-masse. The name on the account…

Call of Duty is not supposed to be good, so the idea goes, especially not Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. The sixth C…

It's an arms race out there in superhero-movie-land. Seems like everybody wants to adapts comics into something…

I went to Brooklyn, New York to visit Nina Freeman, who is currently making a game called Cibele. It is an…

Sometimes wisdom comes from unexpected places. In this case, from a puppet controlled by an introspective game…

Like the action movies of the 1980s, mainstream video games view war through a pretty rose-tinted lens. Even when…

Pardon the pun, but Captain Oil isn’t one of those mobile games that’s going to set the world on fire. But the more…

A society leaves behind a pretty decent map of its psychology in the culture it creates. For example, the 1950s…