Last Friday industry leaders met with vice president Biden to defend video games against accusations that they cause real-world violence. But they wouldn't have to point this out so much if more of the games they made weren't glorifications of slaughter and destruction.
The Black Ops 2 marketing blitz has left me with two questions: Why Black Ops and why are there humans? If neither of those queries make immediate sense, give me a second to explain.
In an extensive interview with Venture Beat’s Dean Takahashi, studio head …
Between the time when Roger Ebert initially claimed that video games could not be art and now, something happened. I’ll begin this essay by briefly retracing the trajectory of “video games as art” as I see it. Once upon a …
It started in 2009. Mega Man creator and Japanese developer extraordinaire, Keiji Inafune, had the following to say after seeing the games on display at that year’s Tokyo Game Show:
Japan is over. We're done. Our game industry is finished.…
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