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…
Category: Column
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 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…
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 2, 2024
Retro gaming thrives in the shadow of AAA handhelds
It’s an exciting time in the gaming industry as both Microsoft and PlayStation seem to be in the process of…
October 21, 2024
Space Invaders and the not-so-smart watch
Sometimes, technology can offer us too much. Smartphones deliver cameras, games, music, video, communication, tracking, sorting, work, play, and, yes,…
August 6, 2024
How Tetris became playable on a McNugget and in a Slurpee
Tetris is everywhere. From the esoteric (the Soviet Union’s Electronika 60 in 1985) to the mainstream (the Nintendo Switch) to the…
June 29, 2024
Borderlands, Metal Gear Solid, and the art of the video game adaptation
The first time I spoke with Ari Arad about the Borderlands movie was about seven years ago, perhaps an impressive length of…
May 31, 2024
Finding a spark of hope in a sea of layoffs
It’s been 2 days since lives were upended. It’s been 2 days since dreams were crushed. It’s been 2 days since an industry…
April 1, 2024
Game development in the time of a Cuban crisis
For a while, things looked very, very bad for Cuba’s first modern indie video game. Exploding onto the scene nearly…