May 23, 2025
Three years later, handheld PC gaming has evolved beyond niche
It’s been a bit more than three years since the Steam Deck landed, popularizing a way of gaming that, at…
Author: Brian Crecente
May 8, 2025
Polygon’s fitful birth and sudden ‘death’
It took about a year for Polygon to come screaming to life back in 2012. It took less than a…
April 15, 2025
Harebrained Schemes Discusses Three Major Lessons Learned From The Lamplighters League
When it hit in 2023, The Lamplighters League was neither a triumph nor a failure. It was a novel turn-based…
April 2, 2025
Nintendo takes the road more traveled with Switch 2
Where famous blockbuster Nintendo creations like the Game Boy, DS, and Wii took the path less traveled to tremendous success,…
March 31, 2025
BBC: Could a ‘dating app’ for video games help smaller developers?
I chatted with the BBC about the development of a new game discoverability app called Ludocene, that I’m listed as…
March 25, 2025
The making of a horror video game doc
This is something new. Not necessarily a replacement of my typically written column, but a stab at trying my hand…
March 24, 2025
Bossa takes on AAA level online multiplayer with coherence!
More than five years ago, Bossa Studios had a tough decision to make: Kill off a beloved game or face…
February 12, 2025
How The Thing, Aliens, and Predator helped shape Killing Floor 3
They’re not zombies, they’re zeds. The seemingly endless waves of running, crawling, hulking creatures you face in Killing Floor 3 aren’t the…
January 16, 2025
Switch 2? Say it ain’t so Nintendo!
Nintendo introduced the Switch Slightly Bigger (SSB) today. That they didn’t name it that may speak volumes about the future…
December 31, 2024
This major 2025 video game trend will come into focus at CES
It’s clear that 2025 will be the year of handheld PC gaming. What started as an oddity for a relatively…