"This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and li

David Simon took part in a debate hosted by the Observer Observer David Simon surged into the American mainstream with a bleak vision of the devastation wrought by drugs on his home town of Baltimore

The Plucky Squire turns Edge 389 into a fantasy storybook with exclusive fold-out cover By Edge Staff published 7 September 23 News 2D or not 2D: that is the question in All Possible Futures’ Nintendo

I'm taking a wild guess here, but this morning you won't be short of opinion pieces that are anti-Microsoft and pro-Sony. It is of course right that Sony's big announcements about used games, price an

It's been almost three years since Sony launched PlayStation Plus, a paid subscription program that will probably be looked back upon as the most transformative evolution in console business models th

There are frequent fliers, and then there are people like Steven Rothstein and Jacques Vroom. Both men bought tickets that gave them unlimited first-class travel for life on American Airlines. It was

Op-Ed Contributor My Medical Choice LOS ANGELES MY MOTHER fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms

Last September, a car chase through Arizona turned from afternoon diversion to tragedy to referendum on media ethics, but lost in the noise was any sense of who was on the run or why. This is the story behind the spectacle.

It's time to retire the word "gamer," argues Game Developer editor emeritus Brandon Sheffield. The word "gamer" has fully infiltrated the game developer lexicon. It's the adjective we use for our cust

The Wii U just had its Dreamcast moment. With Electronic Arts confirming it doesn't have any games in development for the machine , one of the console industry's biggest players has walked away from t

From the start, it was a bad case. A battered 21-year-old woman with long blond curls was discovered facedown in the weeds, naked, at the western edge of Miami, where the neat grid of outer suburbia b

What can we learn from the techniques of the Old Masters to help us create more varied and emotionally meaningful gaming experiences? And how must we go about adapting these classical art techniques w

I remember being endlessly entertained by the adventures of my toys. Some days they died repeated, violent deaths, other days they traveled to space or discussed my swim lessons and how I absolutely s

The corpse at the Eleganté Hotel stymied the Beaumont, Texas, police. They could find no motive for the killing of popular oil-and-gas man Greg Fleniken—and no explanation for how he had received his strange internal injuries. Bent on tracking down his killer, Fleniken’s widow, Susie, turned to…

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Photo provided by FBI via Getty Images Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will not hear his Miranda rights before the FBI questions him Friday night. He will have to remember on his own that he has

CNN’s coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing has been flawed at times. Screen Grab Courtesy of CNN/YouTube Inspired by the events of the past week, here’s a handy guide for anyone looking to figure o

S ome years ago, not long after I first started working as a TV producer, someone sitting next to me at a wedding asked me what I did for a living. I launched into explaining the nuts and bolts of the

Why has the SimCity story gone away? It's a good question. And the answer for it reveals much about how both the games industry, and the games journalism industry, work. In March, shortly after SimCit

The search for life on Mars is now in its sixth decade. Forty spacecraft have been sent there, and not one has found a single fossil or living thing. The closer we look, the more hostile the planet seems: parched and frozen in every season, its atmosphere inert and murderously thin, its surface…

Eleven days after the massacre, Wayne LaPierre – a lifelong political operative who had steadied the National Rifle Association through many crises – stood before an American flag and soberly addresse

Feminism has failed working-class women by focusing too much on gender equality in high-profile roles, according to new research. While the average gap between the earnings of men and women has narrow

There were two sessions in a row on Wednesday afternoon at this year’s GDC. The first was a panel of women in the games industry, discussing the causes and results of the #1ReasonWhy and #1ReasonToBe

Why on earth would someone pay hundreds of dollars to fly halfway across the country for the pleasure of being abducted by thugs, handcuffed in a basement for hours, and forced to pee into a Gatorade bottle?

Published 22 April 2013 Share page About sharing By Daniel Estrin PRI's The World, Jerusalem Sex is a touchy subject - not least among Israel's highly conservative ultra-Orthodox Jews. But an Orthodox

Maybe now you are old, but are trying to convince yourself that your best years are still ahead of you. Your Claire Danes poster is still there but it’s Carrie instead of Angela. Your ultra-high-defin

Welcome, dear readers, to the seventh circle of bureaucratic hell. As Obama begins his second term, all the talk in Washington is about whether ongoing congressional gridlock and soul-crushing partisanship will block the administration from achieving significant legislative victories, be they…

He knew full well that he was flirting with danger—he could certainly guess how some of his traps might be used. But he also thought that California’s law on hidden compartments, one of the very few in the nation, offered clear guidance: Building a trap was illegal only if it was done with the…

I've spent the last few days at GDC13, networking, making contacts, seeing cool things, attending sessions, and learning more about the industry I'm so very passionate about. I'm all set to graduate i

Health Search politics The Pope Changed the Catholic Church’s Position on the Death Penalty. Will the Supreme Court Follow? Bangladesh What the Arrest of Photographer Shahidul Alam Means for Press Freedom in Bangladesh COMPARECARDS SPONSORED Courts Ex-Manafort Aide Rick Gates Describes Funneling…

The butler did it! That was the tabloid take on the unprecedented breach of security that shook the Vatican last year, when a trove of secrets plucked from one of the most impenetrable places on earth—the pope’s private quarters—was leaked to the media. But why did he do it? And did he act alone?

"Other employees not involved in the game are telling me this game is tearing the teams apart," said Halfbrick designer Luke Muscat, speaking at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The ga

Share this story Share All sharing options for: Opinion: Battlefield 4 totally eclipses the heart Chris Plante co-founded Polygon in 2012 as editor-at-large and is now editor-in-chief. He also created

"Nazis are basically human demons," says Walt Williams, writer of the critically-acclaimed Spec Ops: The Line , at the Game Developer Conference. "Killing them is no big deal." The enemies in Spec Ops

Join Club PA Penny Arcade Acquisitions Inc. PAX Child's Play Pinny Arcade Sign In With Patreon Join Club PA Club PA Ad Free Experience Club PA Pinny Arcade Pin Staff PA Podcast And 10+ more benefits L

Dishonored is Dunwall and Dunwall is Dishonored: never has a game been more inextricably tied to a fictional place. But when Arkane first conceived the game, Dishonored was to be set in medieval Japan

Share this story Share All sharing options for: Dishonored co-creative directors advocate attracting players, not dictating their actions in GDC panel In a GDC 2013 panel today, Dishonored 's co-creat