Word Craft

"Innovative" is a word marketers and developers try to sell us often, but it's rare to find a game—particularly…

MMORPGs are far from popular in Japan, especially when compared to the West. There have been a few MMO…

Editor's Note: Imagine that there are secrets about video games buried under the soil on which you stand. The…

The world of video games is full of mighty people—people whose mere whims control what video games we play, what we…

If you've played a video game, you've probably heard a bark. And not just in Nintendogs—I'm talking about an "enemy…

Allow me to apologize, on the behalf of all game developers, for the 2012 Electronic Entertainment Expo.

A few weeks ago, the Atlantic magazine published a profile I wrote of the developer Jonathan Blow, a man known in…

The last thing I want to do is start another debate about video game storytelling. That sounds almost as fun to read…

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword is my one of my favorite games released in 2011. Here's why I hate it.

It shouldn't be hard to guess who it is, either. Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson was invited to play in Team…