Infinity Blade
How to read a game that never ends.
J Nicholas Geist
Review: Dragon Age II
BioWare’s latest role-playing epic knows how to seduce you, except when it really doesn’t. J. Nicholas Geist writes on the game’s fourth-wall-breaking manuevers and the issue of acceptance.
Review: Torchlight
What is the true endpoint of a good dungeon crawl? Is it contentment and riches, or some perversion of the two? We dig into Torchlight in search of truths.
On Violence, Remembered and Forgotten
Last year, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Schwarzenegger v. EMA, the case in which videogames entered into their epic battle with Arnold Schwarzenegger, not in his capacity as Conan, the Barbarian; or his capacity as T-800, the murderous Terminator robot; or his capacity as Ben Richards, who k
Here I Am, All Dressed in Drakeskin
Sometimes, I see myself through the eyes of my non-gamer readers. My mother-in-law, say. I see a competent writer who, for reasons incomprehensible, devotes himself to writing about a hobby that is immature at best and an active waste of time and talent at worst. Readers like my mother-in-law likely