The Wii U Diaries, Day 5: Will we survive the herds of Nintendo’s connected future?
In the last weekday before launch, Jon Irwin enjoys his last day before the public sets in.
Columns
Think the Olympic closing cermony was madness? Wait, til you play Olympic videogames.
In our monthly sports column, Abe Stein explores the mad, mad world of Olympic videogames. Were they always this crazy and what can they tell us about our current Olympic predicament?
Strings and Swings
Why is pressing buttons more faithful to baseball or golf than swinging a motion controller? Abe Stein explains why videogames need to keep their distance from real sports—at least for now.
In Search of Mothra Fairies
What do onigiri treasure, killer doll heads, spreadsheets, and gymnastics have in common? It turns out nothing, but we can recommend them all in the sudden return of Flash Forward.
The Radioactive Circus
Is this London installation the most dangerous ride in the world? Jason Johnson speaks with artist Ryan Doyle about The Liquidator, a kinetic sculpture he built using radioactive metal collected from the site of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.