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…
Category: Video Games
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…
August 19, 2014
Game dev harassment remains as bad as it was a year ago
It’s been a year since a new kind of threat to game development seemed to reach a fevered pitch: Fans…
May 24, 2014
Schlock wave
Uwe Boll makes movies everyone hates. And he won’t stop. While the German-born director’s ability to turn a mediocre video…
May 23, 2014
The long, strange journey of BioWare’s doctor, developer, beer enthusiast
It seems like an insane risk. But it’s not his first. In the early 90s, Greg Zeschuk was a freshly…
May 21, 2014
Evolution or exploitation? ‘Bully’ fuels latest generational clash: gamers vs. mainstream
It’s a controversy launched by a sentence. The video game Bully, from the makers of Grand Theft Auto, has been…
May 21, 2014
The NSA is more likely to find budding romance on World of Warcraft than secret plots
We live in a time when privacy is a quaint notion. The idea that what you say, no matter where…