News

How I Scored An Interview With Sam ‘Grand Theft Auto’ Houser

Those damn cable networks that cover games only in terms of violence. Those big ‘consumer’ magazines that never review games. They think we don’t think. They think we don’t read. They think we need to get a life. Well, we have one, and, yeah, it’s rich beyond videogames. But it’s also made richer because of videogames. That’s why, after more than 15 years of covering games, I had to write All Your Base Are Belong to Us, How Fifty Years of Videogames Conquered Pop Culture.


May 7, 2010
In Real Life

China’s New Battle Against Engrish

While the botched “Engrish” translations in video games like Zero Wing, the Ninja Warriors and Metal Gear have provided us with years of amusement and long-running memes, officials in China are trying to stamp out mangled English.