Transitional Interfaces

Designers love to sweat the details. Much time is spent pixel-fucking buttons, form styles, setting type, & getting…

Remembering the Xbox 360 reveal that aired on MTV in 2005

Here. We. Go.

A game when games were new

You’re in a virtual world hunting the ultimate easter egg. You’re standing in the back of an empty 80s pizza…

Four Times the Army Has Tried to Turn War Into a Game

Some good, some terrible, combat simulators have…

The power of introspective narrative

How I’ve grown up to play and appreciate Planescape: Torment

Wordplay

The year’s best ebooks are games.

‘The Last of Us’ and the Decline of Values

Why games are not (all) about making us “happy” and why…

I used to be a gamer like you…

At 30 years old, I’ve been playing video games for most of my life. It started when I was barely out of…

Medium, Genre, Content

Unpacking Misconceptions About Visual Novels