Word Monsters

Game Freak, the folks behind Pocket Monsters, are working on a new download title for the 3DS. It's called Rhythm…

Pickings are slim for JRPG fans this fall. Xenoblade and The Last Story have both come and gone, and while our…

Here's to the world map. Here's to those goofy, disproportionate, inelegant pieces of virtual parchment that we've…

In Japan, Dragon Quest is the unquestioned king of RPGs: Even the Final Fantasy series comes in a distant second.…

If you buy the argument that there are people who make real video games and there are people who make things that…

No, you haven't woken from a coma to find yourself in the year 2013. It's only been nine months since the first Orcs…

More and more these days, companies are making games with a free-to-play model—focusing on micro-transactions to…

You know how people like to use the word "rehash" to describe games? "Oh, that Call of Duty 44 is such a rehash."…

If I say the word "Zynga" to you, you probably think stories of shoddy work practices, of ruthless non-games like…

During my first 25 years playing video games I had no theory about what makes a video game good. I knew the good…