Gaming

The Cave

Xbox 360 / PS3 / Wii

PUBLISHED Mar 19, 2013

As the brains behind LucasArts' '80s computer classics Maniac Mansion and Monkey Island, Ron Gilbert popularized the point-and-click advent...

Fire Emblem: Awakening

3DS

PUBLISHED Mar 19, 2013

Remember that Star Wars scene when R2D2 and Chewie are playing 3D holo-monster chess (dejarik to the geekier amongst us)? The latest Fire E...

Darling Clementine

How a digital eight-year-old brought emotion back from the Dead

PUBLISHED Mar 4, 2013

The beating heart of The Walking Dead, Telltale Games' episodic point-and-click consensus pick for 2012's game of the year, is Clementine....

Borderlands 2

Xbox 360 / PS3 / PC

PUBLISHED Feb 12, 2013

Sequels have a bad rap and, as far as Hollywood goes, with good reason. A film like, say, The Matrix comes along, blows mind and then the a...

The Unfinished Swan

PSN

PUBLISHED Feb 5, 2013

The Unfinished Swan is like the neck of its titular fowl: thin, beautiful and ultimately twisted. Like its better known PSN compatriot Jour...

Skyrim: Dragonborn

Xbox 360 / PC / PS3

PUBLISHED Feb 5, 2013

Elder Scrolls games feel wondrously endless because of the countless hours that can be whiled away wandering the wilds of Tamriel without e...

Killing in the Name of…Learning

PUBLISHED Nov 26, 2012

As the U.S. election raced to its recent finish line with America's biracial president battling Tea Party republicans, gamers were reliving...

Gaming's Two Solitudes

Bridging the Gap Between Japan and North America

PUBLISHED Oct 29, 2012

Much like house and techno, America invented gaming only to see someplace else perfect it. Atari made that initial beachhead, but by the mi...