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Inside the Egyptian-made food-prep game that aims to help Syrians displaced in the civil war

Our wildlife correspondent Drew Millard gets his hands on a gun and learns the meaning of the word FEARMASTER.

EA Sports producer Aaron McHardy was going to be a professional soccer player. Then a devastating injury led him to a very different kind of footballing.

The tower-defense game that you need an accomplished cellist to play.

Two Danes set out to teach the tools of game design to the young women of the West Bank. The games they made are haunting and beautiful.

INTRANURTZ rage has gone too far this time. Now, it’s personal.

Our Durham bureau chief puts his virtual life in laser danger to get the story from last weekend’s Escapist Expo.

After a few weeks of fun, I started ignoring Clipperton. Then he found someone who gives him the attention he craves.

I was once like you, excited by the possibilities of persistent online gaming. Then one tragic day in Felucca…

When I was a poor college student I got a tattoo of the videogame company in exchange for five free games. Here’s how I feel about it now.

We were at the rollout for Nintendo’s new console with the absurd name. Here’s what happened.

Bang the Machine was supposed to be the documentary that brought arcade culture to the mainstream. Then came September 11, 2001.

I thought Valve was working on a real-life portal gun. Instead, they built 1992.

Everyone knows Gamestop is broken. Here’s how to fix it:

Tech cooperative Site 3 takes Street Fighter’s most iconic gesture and turns it into a blazing reality for Burning Man

The fifteenth anniversary of the most over-analyzed game in the history of the format has arrived. Can we please stop talking about it?

Like any good gamer, I wanted to take my picture with Master Chief. Little did I know, the Halo hero has a Napoleon complex.

Like playing with dolls? Then you’re going to love Vigil Games’ addition to the Darksiders franchise.

Seriously.

One of our favorite pieces from the vault. Dave Carter began the Computer and Video Game Archive at the University of Michigan. But this isn’t your typical archive of gaming’s greatest. It seeks out the forgotten and worst bits of gaming, too—the Philips CD-i, the Atari 7800 controller, the doll tha

Consoles and PCs have followed Moore’s Law of increasing complexity and capacity. But with more lifelike games, will there be any imaginative gaps left for players to fill?

Why does South America’s top StarCraft 2 player adore Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim?

Does PETA have a point? We dug through our game library and found moments of animal cruelty both blatant and subtle.

Welcome to the new Kill Screen! Here’s a quick rundown of what’s new, and what shouldn’t be new.