Words Across America

When I think back to my childhood and teenage years, when my literary tastes were being forged in the crucible of…

The mainstream narrative of esports has been lovingly crafted by those who benefit from its success. There’s big…

Each person who worked on 2009's Uncharted 2: Among Thieves had their own path to the game. Some had been at Naughty…

In the spring of 2004, the public perception was that Nintendo was in deep trouble. Going into the company’s E3…

Just a couple decades ago, anime fans would pore over Japanese dictionaries to hand-translate subtitles for their…

Nintendo’s Princess Peach is the quintessential damsel in distress. She’s such a damsel cliché that she’s more…

From tip to tail, Red Dead Redemption 2 is a profound, glorious downer. It is the rare blockbuster video game that…

I’m standing on a bridge connecting two small mountains, staring at the tree-laden canyon and small river below. I…

You can do a lot of things with city builder games. You can replicate real cities, or you can simulate massive…

I played Red Dead Redemption 2 for the first time this week, and I swiftly caused glorious chaos.