gamer culture

Sometimes it’s censorship. Sometimes it’s unfortunate implications. And sometimes it’s straight-up unexplainable.…

Late last year, it was revealed that Link would become a racer in Mario Kart 8. But that wasn’t his first Mario…

I remember the first time I went shoplifting. The sun was shining, Marin was singing, and I needed a shovel.

Two weeks ago, at EVE Fanfest, a convention for players of space MMO EVE Online, I began hearing odd snatches of…

On November 5, 1995, a gamer called CJayC created the Video Game FAQ Archive. Later known as GameFAQs, the site was…

In the West, Twitch is an internet superpower. In Japan, things couldn’t be more different. Mainstream success will…

I played the opening few hours of Batman: Arkham Knight in August. You know what I did after that? I opened up the…

Some of the games industry’s most talented and experienced designers are making the leap from game development to…

Games have - to put it mildly - a weird-ass approach to love. But love is weird in real-life, too. In time for…

Steam sales are good, provided you have self-control. If you don't, you might feel like the Scout above whenever a…

Featuring excellent pixel art and some self-deprecating humor from the very talented Paul Robertson.

Wandering around New York earlier this week, I found myself in the vicinity of the Nintendo World Store. I thought…

Those Assassin's Creeds and Far Crys and Grand Theft Autos had to come from somewhere.

They should have brought a couple dozen more people.

Back in the early 2000s one company ruled when it came to getting attention. From pigeons trained to ruin Wimbledon…

A few days before my dad died in August, I got the call I'd been dreading from my mother. She told me it was time…

You know the strange thing about my eight years with the Xbox 360? Despite the fact that I played it most days, I…