I’m sure you’ve heard about the gaming crash of 1983. Even if you’re too young to remember it personally, the event is still ...

We think of Steam as the unstoppable juggernaut of digital distribution on the PC. And it is. But Steam is also a very ...

Japan does not care about the Xbox. It’s not that the console sells poorly, it’s that it barely sells at all. At the ...

The No Man’s Sky NEXT update is out, which has renewed interest in the game. People are talking about No Man’s Sky again ...

My last two columns were about Fallout 4, so this week I decided to answer some reader questions for a change of pace. ...

We’re in that odd lull between the “October Crappy Spooky Game” glut and the “End of year / Christmas” glut. (This year, that’s ...

This week I came across this 2011 study that compared the effects of various “horror” games on players. The study limited itself to ...

I got several questions from readers this week, all of them related to how large games are. So I’m going to answer them ...

Everyone hears the tems “memory”, “processor”, “storage” and “graphics card”, and they understand that these are somehow parts of a computer, but not ...

Let’s talk about risk. I’m sure you’ve heard that there’s a lot of it in AAA game development these days. Games cost a ...

As I’m always reminding people: Critiquing games isn’t an all-or-nothing deal. It’s okay to hate aspects of a wonderful game or love aspects ...

Welcome back to Extra Consideration, where we allow our contributors room to tackle the industry’s big issues. Last week, Yahtzee, Shamus Young and ...