Gaming

The joystick of sex The joystick of sex

From the prostitutes of "Grand Theft Auto" to cutting-edge teledildonics, sex has fueled the gaming industry, as the author of "Porn & Pong" explains.
By Tracy Clark-Flory Oct 6, 2008

  • Lessons from a virtual bank run

    When is a fake financial panic more real than the real thing? How about in an online sci-fi role-playing game?
    By Andrew Leonard September 5, 2009

  • iPod Touch: The New Age Gameboy

    By Tanner Morrison January 14, 2009

  • The thrill of victory, the agony of cyber-defeat

    At the World Cyber Games in Seattle, the competition spills over from Starcraft and Counterstrike to good-old fashioned nationalist flag-waving
    By Andrew Leonard October 10, 2007

  • Gaming makes women smarter?

    Hours of video game play improves women's spatial abilties, says a new study.
    By Tracy Clark-Flory October 5, 2007

  • Play peak oil before you live it

    Collaborative intelligence wiz Jane McGonigal designs alternate reality games to solve the world's biggest problems. Enviros love her -- but so does the military.
    By Eliza Strickland July 10, 2007

  • Henry Jenkins' westward journey

    More fun with fantasy gaming and the history of Sino-Japanese hostility
    By Andrew Leonard August 24, 2006

  • Fantasy gaming, Sino-Japanese style

    A red sun rising on the wrong dynasty starts an online riot
    By Andrew Leonard July 11, 2006

  • Cao Cao, where art thou?

    Chinese gaming: A new dynasty in the making?
    By Andrew Leonard June 14, 2006

  • World of Chinese Warcraft

    Where Chinese gamers go, the world may follow.
    By Andrew Leonard January 17, 2006

  • Grand Death Auto

    Two kids, 13 and 15, killed an innocent highway motorist. Was a violent computer game responsible -- or their sad lives?
    By David Kushner February 22, 2005

  • "Grand Theft Auto: Myst"

    In the most gorgeously conceived AND ultraviolent video game in history, you can open fire on passing cars with a bazooka while exploring universal archetypes!
    By Jason Roeder February 2, 2005

  • The year in games

    Developers, critics, gamers and analysts weigh in: What they loved, what they learned, what they worried about.
    By Wagner James Au December 22, 2004

  • A change of heart for Scrooge?

    A leaked memo hints that Electronic Arts might change its exploitative ways. But the workers are unimpressed.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski December 6, 2004

  • No boring fighting parts

    Rich and evocative, "Myst IV: Revelation" is a worthy successor to one of the greatest computer games of all time.
    By Laura Miller November 23, 2004

  • The "Velvet-Strike" underground

    Taking protests to the street is old hat. Today's rabble-rousers wave their signs inside video games.
    By Jennifer Buckendorff May 4, 2004

  • Nintendo rocks!

    And now for something completely different: The Minibosses, a band that plays nothing but tunes from old video games.
    By Verne Becker April 21, 2004

  • John Kerry: The video game

    In "Battlefield Vietnam," a new version of one of the most popular games in the U.S., you too can try to win a Silver Star saving your buddies in the jungle.
    By Wagner James Au April 13, 2004

  • Learning to love mass murder

    I'm not a violent guy. But I just cheerfully burned an entire marching band to death, then kicked a woman's head downstairs. OK, it's all virtual slaughter, but I'm starting to scare myself.
    By Peter Olafson March 31, 2004

  • 14th century video games

    In Lev Grossman's "Codex," an investment banker manages the neat trick of simultaneously getting lost in medieval England and a 21st century computer game.
    By Andrew Leonard March 4, 2004

  • Stopping al-Qaida, a quarter at a time

    Eugene Jarvis, legendary creator of "Defender" and "Robotron," is still making computer games for arcades. But his new bad guys aren't aliens -- they're terrorists who want to crash a plane into the White House.
    By Mitch Borgeson March 2, 2004
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