Think back to being a new student. The college gives you a new email to check. Students can only make counseling appointments by phone one day every two weeks. The monitors in the hallways and student...

Walter White from “Breaking Bad.” The eponymous Dexter Morgan. Virtually every character in “Game of Thrones.” These characters do horrible things, mostly involving murder, while justifying the...

I recently ran into a flash … thing online called “Cookie Clicker.” It’s set up like a typical flash game, but it’s lacking one important aspect of a game. When you open the browser-based...

In a perennial glut of sports games, “Mutant League” was an outlier which could appeal to even the biggest jock-hating gamers. In the ‘90s, a video game was produced for the 16-bit era called...

When was the last time you saw a movie that was blatantly written with an eventual game tie in in mind? For me, it was Riddick. I saw the new entry in the dystopian sci-fi franchise last Friday, and...

It was the spring of 2000, and rather than going to some lame St. Patrick’s Day dance my middle school was putting on, my parents took me out for pizza and a movie. That movie was “Pitch Black.”...

Many people will visit local game stores or online networks to meet with others and play their favorite games. However, there is a sense of a much bigger community that can only be experienced at conventions...