Ian Allen “They’re a rotten crowd,” I shouted across the lawn. “You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby I. “Love Will Make You Do Wrong” In the waning
On the morning of August 7, 2014, a team of fighters from the Islamic State, riding in pickup trucks and purloined American Humvees, swept out of the Iraqi village of Wana and headed for the Mosul Dam
Crusaders against “political correctness” often portray themselves as brave. They deride others for knuckling under to left-wing orthodoxy, for being too afraid of African Americans, Latinos, feminist
Donald Trump spoke about immigration in Phoenix on Wednesday, several hours after a joint press conference with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto. Photograph by David Paul Morris / Bloomberg via Ge
Exactly one month ago, Instagram pilfered a major feature from Snapchat, and the teen photo wars entered a new and more ruthless chapter. The feature, Instagram “Stories,” lets a user share a photo or
Space, as Captain Kirk once said, is big and empty and boring. Okay, maybe not boring, but it's sufficiently large that you can quite easily miss the important stuff that's going down if you've got yo
In October 2008, Microsoft released Lionhead's Fable 2 to critical and commercial acclaim. At a launch party an emotional Peter Molyneux held aloft glowing reviews and praised the exhausted team of de
One American official said foreign officials all ask: "What is this Trump phenomenon? Can he really win?" | Getty By Edward-Isaac Dovere and Bryan Bender 04/21/2016 05:25 AM EDT President Ba
I've always loved a good progress bar. Without a progress bar, I might begin to install or download something, then use that unquantifiable amount of time to read a book, or donate money to a really c
In the design document for Metal Gear Solid 2, written in the months following MGS's success, there is a section explaining the concept of 'Absolute Evil in MGS2.' "Evil in Hollywood films," writes Hi
On September 3, 1998, Metal Gear Solid was released for the Sony Playstation, and games changed forever. Though an early 3D title, MGS was not the first third-person game influenced by cinema, nor was
In the 1950s and 60s there was a whole series of films that asked the same fundamental question: what the hell are we doing when we go to the cinema? Hitchcock's Rear Window, Michael Powell's Peeping
Michael Cera and Jonah Hill share a bromantic moment in Superbad . Photo: Sony Pictures There’s a pretty clear gender divide in how Americans deal with straight people who dabble in gay activity. When
Recent News Baldur's Gate 3 director reveals his least-favourite D&D class, and I've been personally attacked News You'll take this lute from my cold, dead hands Starfield surpasses one million concur
Gaming shouldn't be a countdown to a refund Share this story Share All sharing options for: No, you shouldn't get your money back for games you finished and loved Opinion by Ben Kuchera Feb 16, 2016,
Easy, right? Well, uh, no—the endeavor took us over a year to complete. Connecting our servers to ISPs required us to first purchase routers, lease space to place the routers in ten of the largest int
This is a repost from my personal blog . Hearthstone is probably my second most-played game ever, the first one being Evil Islands which I was playing for about 8 years straight, so it’s hard to beat
I can still remember the first family I created. On the fifth of February 2000, the day after The Sims launched, Mr and Mrs Bead moved into the single-bedroom bungalow located at 2 Sim Lane. Mr Bead w
Politico illustration/Reuters and iStock. Michael Kruse is a senior staff writer for Politico . The Tuesday night before this past Thanksgiving, at a dinner in a small ballroom at the Holiday Inn at t
AP Photo At home, Julián Castro’s been spending more time reading and watching television in Spanish, trying to get his speaking skills up to speed. On the job as Housing and Urban Development secreta
In Play is a new column taking a weekly sideways look at new game releases. It's a bit like our old series Game of the Week , if you remember that. I want to talk about getting stuck. I've whiled away
The Assassins were supposed to protect the Prince, not steal his crown. If you're a fan of courtly intrigues, or at least courtly intrigue as a metaphor for franchise evolution, I recommend reading up
Sometimes we are accused — believe it or not — of being overly negative in our annual Year in Review. Critics say we ignore the many positive events in a given year and focus instead on the stupid, th
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In 2007, game developer Clint Hocking wrote a hugely influential essay about the problem with video games. Entitled Ludonarrative Dissonance in Bioshock, the article looked at Irrational's classic sho
Getty Ambassador Daniel Benjamin is director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College and served as coordinator for counterterrorism at the State Department
What is the Islamic State ? Where did it come from, and what are its intentions? The simplicity of these questions can be deceiving, and few Western leaders seem to know the answers. In December, The
I suspect we’re all getting a little bit too conditioned to data breaches lately. They’re in the mainstream news on what seems like a daily basis to the point where this is the new normal. Certainly t
When I was a young kid first discovering video games in the early 1980s, I used to go to the huge Wythenshawe library in Greater Manchester, where I could rent Commodore 64 titles for 10p a week. Usua
Julian Togelius has an idea about where open-world games are going. Let's call it the infinite world theory. In his version of the future, titles like Skyrim and Grand Theft Auto will have no set miss
Getty Josh Zeitz has taught American history and politics at Cambridge University and Princeton University and is the author of Lincoln’s Boys: John Hay, John Nicolay, and the War for Lincoln's Image
Getty Jacob Heilbrunn is editor of the National Interest and author of They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons . Poor Reince Priebus. After Mitt Romney’s loss to Barack Obama in 2012, Prieb
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In July 2015, developer Comcept launched a Kickstarter campaign for its game Red Ash . It didn’t go well. Despite raising over $500,000 in pledges, the campaign missed its target and critics pummeled
I hate writing this, because the situation is ugly , and it feels like I'm just piling on. I'll try to add something new to the discussion. Yeah, yeah, I know. Another stupid article about the Indie B
When the Ashley Madison hackers leaked close to 100 gigabytes' worth of sensitive documents belonging to the online dating service for people cheating on their romantic partners, there seemed to be on
BY JON BIRGER Values. That’s the one thing that always came up when I’d discuss theories on declining marriage rates or the rise of the hookup culture with my friends or family. “Couldn’t it just be t
It's not often that a game will make me angry. I mean, righteous in my guts angry. Technical incompetence isn't enough. I understand and identify with incompetence, and understand how good ideas and n
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