This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

I'd been in Sacramento a day and already noticed the pervasiveness of its homeless problem. The city seemed like California without the masks or pretense: a place where dreams were occasionally made but mostly torn apart.

Games tell stories best when they're elliptical and ambiguous and there's a sense of roaming and freedom.

A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.

Sport-based video games occupy an odd space within the sphere of modern home entertainment. Reliably enjoyed by millions, the sport-based video game stands at what sometimes feels like an oblique angle from the larger medium, and in ways that can be hard to articulate.

Often the art in a video game is like glorified Thomas Kinkade, but some of it is genuinely enchanting and compelling.