November 17, 2018
‘The Walking Dead’ Video Games: An Oral History
“The Walking Dead” comic book’s enduring popularity gave birth not just to two television shows and an eclectic mix of…
Category: Video Games
November 7, 2018
‘Spacewar!’: Birth of the Game Industry
It was a pilgrimage of sorts. Some of the biggest, most established names in the nearly $140 billion game industry…
August 17, 2018
The Story Behind the Story of ‘Red Dead Redemption 2’
“Red Dead Redemption 2” doesn’t deliver one story, it delivers 23 of them. And in true Rockstar Game fashion, that’s not…
November 8, 2017
Classic Arcade Machines Make a Come Back $100 a Pop
Shilo Prychak gently, almost tenderly, lifts a bundle from his backpack laying spread apart on the floor and places it…
April 12, 2017
From hacker to Valve and back again
Flame-throwing race car driver, circuit board hacker, computer store chain founder, toymaker, game tweaker, car builder: Before co-founding her own augmented…
March 21, 2017
When pigs flew: The strange history of Capcom’s Big Bang Bar
A story of passion, creativity, bankruptcy and pinball’s downfall When I first heard the story, I thought it was an urban…
March 15, 2017
Cuba: Where underground arcades, secret networks and piracy are a way of life
A look at how Cubans play, make, critique and find video games Like its music, like its art, Cuba is…
May 11, 2016
A History of Handheld Gaming
Back in 2015, I spent a month or so researching the history of watches that play video games. The research…
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…
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…