Crossing Souls wants to make you feel like a kid again
A sweet, scary ode to childhood.
Interview
A conversation with Jesse Schell, author of The Art of Game Design
Or: What does Disneyland have to do with The Last of Us?
A chat with Simogo’s Simon Flesser about their new Sailor’s Dream
Breaking the silence.
We talk videogames with tech pioneer Stewart Butterfield
The founder of Flickr and Slack discusses the nature of play.
Say hello to Off Grid, a game about privacy in the digital age
Paradox? Why not.
Let’s procedurally generate something besides landscapes
Noir Syndrome proves all the directions “infinity” can go.
Placing faith in The Last Cargo’s atheist allegory
Life beyond the altar.
Transistor: Supergiant’s accidental spiritual successor
One of the year’s most anticipated RPGs grew organically.
Road to Two5Six: Tarn and Zach Adams
The Dwarf Fortress devs have spent their lives making a game about life.
Suda51: "I personally would like to thoroughly demolish the existing Grasshopper traits."
Cheerleaders splattered with the blood of the undead. Light sabers suggestive of masturbation. The “gigolo mini-game.” These grindhouse-y, Freudian, sexually twisted themes are the kind of stunts Goichi Suda, popularly known as Suda51, and his studio Grasshopper Manufacture, are known for. But now t
How Runemaster aims to turn Swedish folklore into the most emergent RPG ever
“We are going to have make a shit-ton of content.”
How the upcoming Thralled could help us better understand the atrocity of slavery
Love speaks louder than violence.
Child of Light aims to make the JRPG the way it always should’ve been: Gorgeous
Concept art grows up.
Viscera Cleanup Detail is what would happen if Charlie Kaufman made a shooter
Sans Jon Brion strings.
How M. C. Escher’s "little worlds" inspired the gorgeous upcoming Monument Valley
Not to mention Sonic the Hedgehog, Fez, Diablo II…
Videogames enter the post-WASD era
In praise of walking and looking.
How Tales of Game’s invented the massive Hoopz Barkley SaGa
Warning: This interview is canon.
Ralph Baer recalls the creation of console gaming
“Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story…”
Why are videogames so bad at being funny, and why are Mega64 so good at it?
How thinking outside of videogames could make videogames better.
Is the Kinect (still) the next big thing?
We talk to writer Tim Carmody about what Kinect is doing right and what it still needs to do.
Premiere: Brain-melting video "Space Ox & Peking Duck" by David Kanaga and Andrew Strasser
How videogame-y can a single piece of music be?
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime takes Chris Ware to outer space, whether he wants to go or not
We talk to the developers—and to Ware himself—to explore this fascinating artistic intersection.
Assassin’s Creed lead writer Corey May on why games are more like TV than movies and the "perfect" AC title
“Story in games is like the security at a strip club. He needs to be there but you don’t need to see him.”
How Ubisoft is defying and embracing myth In Assassin’s Creed 4
We talk with lead writer Darby McDevitt and historical consultant Colin Woodard about bringing the 1700s to life.
Experimental musician James Ferraro on his new album and its relationship with GTA V
Where the urban environment and the uncanny valley meet.