What the Maze

Across thousands of years of existence, we as a people have come to regard war as pretty bad. Senseless violence and…

Video games are quite fond of the work of M.C. Escher—you’ll see his influence in the mundane labyrinths of Control,…

I love solving a good maze on paper, but it turns out real-life mazes can be trickier to solve. The biggest change…

The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening is a mystery. Link, the hero of the Zelda games, wakes up after getting…

Last week I asked you, folks, to create some Mario levels featuring pipes! You delivered, giving me a diverse set of…

Everybody calls Rob Kuntz last, he says. Those who want to know about the history of Dungeons & Dragons start with…

In Fallout 76, power armor can keep you safe, or it can become a horrible tomb entrapping unsuspecting players until…

Last week I asked you wonderful people to create some cat-themed Mario levels in celebration of International Cat…

The Mario Maker series offers creators an expansive suite of tools with which to build punishing, unique, or thought-…

By the end of the month, there will be 46 games in Nintendo Switch Online’s NES library. There will be 52 if you…