Breaking Up With "League of Legends."

Hi everybody, I’m Kevin and I have a problem with games. (Muffled chorus: Hi Kevin.) I’ve uninstalled Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri because I stopped doing anything else.  I’d sit down to play at my desk for fifteen minutes and then

The Art of Storytelling

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKfBSUKI9PA&w=480&h=390] Roger Ebert said, loosely, that no one has ever written a video game narrative that anyone will remember in fifty years. And I get the feeling he’s right. Narrative in video games has had a long, curious history; I’m

What Goes Up, Can't Go Down

Or: Why the Microsoft Kinect and the Playstation Move are doomed to fail* Update 1: I’ve realized I needed to make the definition of what ‘fail’ meant more explicit. In this case, ‘fail’ refers to catering to the non-gamer market.

A Link to the Twilight Princess

This article contain spoilers for: Terminator (movie) Back to the Future (movie) The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess The goal of this article is not to establish