The War Must Go On
Brendan Keogh examines the overlap between games and cinema via the Modern Warfare series and asks how much control the player has or even wants.
Columns
I Can’t Play Without My Radio
In Grand Theft Auto and Fallout, the soundtrack saves your life. Here’s how the power of pop helps gaming achieve the mundane.
An Old Hope
Most sports stories play out the same way. Two baseball narratives, The Rookie and The Natural, offer a different understanding of the game by beginning at the end. Our sports columnist responds in-game.
Playing Tricks
We have come to expect everything from gimmicky machinations to pure innovation in videogames. But are they part of a broader historical tradition? Diana Poulsen delves into the Baroque to shed light on gaming’s modern tricks.
Open Your Eyes
The bifurcation of society into jocks and geeks was supposed to end with high school. So why do the two groups eye each other with mutual suspicion? Our sports columnist argues that the videogame community has wrongly ousted sports gamers.