I trudged through filthy waist-deep water. Giant rats boiled from the grimy walls and burst out of barrels; each sudden encounter diminished my ...

Hollywood, California. 1998. Twenty years ago, I was a young man, making my way in Hollywood as best I could. In ’97, I ...

Mad Max shouldn’t exist. Starring a vaguely Australian-sounding Max in search of his “Black on Black” Ford Falcon Interceptor, Warner Bros. and Avalanche’s ...

In most freemium games, the vast majority of players don’t spend a dime on microtransactions. After all, it defeats the purpose of a ...

Of the three times I saw Avengers: Infinity War in theaters, there were only two universal audience-wide reactions: collective devastation at the ending, ...

Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise knocked me right out of its passionately 1980s post-apocalyptic wasteland in the first five minutes. Even ...

I discovered my identity as a transgender woman through video games. While the very notion that gaming contributed to my feminine coming of ...

In Dylan Arena’s paper “Video Games as Tillers of Soil,” Arena defines a learning area applicable to video games called “affinity space.” Affinity ...

My name is Heath Smith, Lead Game Designer on Shadow of the Tomb Raider. I’d like to illuminate how and why we came up ...

The promise of an all-digital future that began with the rollout of Steam 15 years ago next week has increasingly become a reality. ...

PlayStation Vita and I found each other at a vulnerable moment. There we were: at the beginning of 2012, afraid to love again. ...

We’ve had too much practice already. The only certainty is we will have more. Like a specter in the mirror, the space between ...