May 2, 2016
Their future is Epic: The evolution of a gaming giant
“At our wedding, I got one of the last photos of the three of us together. It might be the…
Author: Brian Crecente
December 11, 2015
A Harrowing Trek
At first glance, Furtune Troni, clutching a bagel in one hand and a half-empty cup of McDonald’s orange drink in…
December 7, 2015
Time killers: The strange history of wrist gaming
Flying cars, robot servants, personal jetpacks: This was the life envisioned for us by the futurists, science fiction writers and…
September 23, 2015
Reporter’s Toolbox
Below you’ll find a list of links I regularly use in the course of researching stories and people. I plan…
July 13, 2015
Strangers come to say farewell to dead child
The little girl danced at the end of her mother’s hand, blue dress glittering in the sun. She danced ahead,…
May 20, 2015
Brancaccio unfazed by second conviction
Victor Brancaccio’s mother fainted and his grandmother had to be helped out of the courtroom in a wheelchair, but the…
May 2, 2015
Blackballing: On the relationship between journalists and game makers
In 2007, in the days leading up to the Game Developers Conference, Kotaku reporter (now Polygon’s deputy news editor) Mike…
October 24, 2014
The art of the interview
Interviews! They’re not just conversations, but they also are! They’re chess matches, they’re war, they’re a bunch of other terrible…
October 23, 2014
Covering video games as a beat
Video game journalism is, as I love to say, journalism. But it’s also a beat. That means a specific area…
October 23, 2014
The importance of previews
This week’s New York Comic-Con means I won’t be able to do a video with Andrea this week for the…