feature
How the upcoming Thralled could help us better understand the atrocity of slavery
Love speaks louder than violence.
Interview
Interview
Child of Light aims to make the JRPG the way it always should’ve been: Gorgeous
Concept art grows up.
Article
Viscera Cleanup Detail is what would happen if Charlie Kaufman made a shooter
Sans Jon Brion strings.
Article
How M. C. Escher’s "little worlds" inspired the gorgeous upcoming Monument Valley
Not to mention Sonic the Hedgehog, Fez, Diablo II…
Interview
Videogames enter the post-WASD era
In praise of walking and looking.
feature
How Tales of Game’s invented the massive Hoopz Barkley SaGa
Warning: This interview is canon.
News
Ralph Baer recalls the creation of console gaming
“Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story…”
Interview
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.
Interview
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.
Interview
Premiere: Brain-melting video "Space Ox & Peking Duck" by David Kanaga and Andrew Strasser
How videogame-y can a single piece of music be?
Interview
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.
Interview
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.”