On the one hand you have Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, and on the other you have Happy Cooking. On the train you start up Chinatown Wars, and when you get home you load up the PSP e-book reader. One day you are deep into Manhunt 2, counting bodies, the...

Every video game has certain benefits and constraints in the way it represents space. Interaction fiction, arcade titles, 2D side-scrollers, isometric RPGs, and first person shooters all have advantages and disadvantages to how they deal with...

Sometime in the 14th century, the English Language adopted a word from dutch. The word was pleien, and it meant "dance, leap for joy, and rejoice". Over time, it morphed into our current word play, which is used for an entire host of things,...

Until I was 16, I had no interest in keeping up to date with video games. My family had no windows-running PC - they had an Atari. We did not have a Playstation, or a PS2. We had a Sega Megadrive, and an ancient, clunky console that had belonged to...

First up, let me apologise for disappearing for a month. I moved house, lost my internet for a while, and then my computer died. Not a good chain of events! However, I'm back now - with my follow-up to Selling a Game: Making People Want to Buy. Once...