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Anthony Tan was 16 years old when screenshots from his video game Way to the Woods generated lots of attention. Over the past nine years, release dates — in 2019, 2020, 2023 — came and went. But he promises the game is on its way. nytimes.com/2024/08/16/art…

For The New York Times, I spent time with GSC Game World to find out how the Russia-Ukraine war became suffused within S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2. On the Zone as a site of regeneration, the story as an analogy for displacement, & changing the game's trauma-surfacing air-raid siren. nytimes.com/2024/09/12/art…

EXCLUSIVE: Ghost of Tsushima gets a sequel. The New York Times spoke with the developers about the new game, and turning Ghost into a bona fide franchise. And bears ... nytimes.com/2024/09/24/art…

nytimes.com/2024/09/24/art… The developers of Ghost of Yotei told The New York Times that it's a story of "underdog vengeance" that will follow a new character across the sprawling grasslands and snowy tundras of northern Japan.

Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Super Mario, Princess Zelda and Donkey Kong, spoke with the The New York Times about what makes Nintendo special as the playing card company turned global entertainment brand opens a museum in Kyoto, Japan. nytimes.com/2024/09/25/art…

Nearly 40 years after Link, a brave hero, first embarked on a mission to save Princess Zelda, she finally gets her due. Echoes of Wisdom makes Zelda the playable protagonist, and this time, she has to save Link and her beloved Hyrule from doom. nytimes.com/2024/09/26/art…

Your boy is in The NY Times, writing about Balatro and other video games that are cracking the classic deck of cards wide open nytimes.com/2024/10/01/art…

grantland.com/the-triangle/2… All of Derrick Henry's 10,000 rushing yards came after I wrote this speculative nonfiction in 2015. (LeSean McCoy also reached the threshold.)

“Technology is not something that humankind can control. It is an event that has befallen the world.” —John Gray nytimes.com/2024/10/15/art…

I profiled Giant Sparrow the studio behind What Remains of Edith Finch for The New York Times nytimes.com/2024/10/24/art…

Here's my New York Times Arts review of Mario & Luigi: Brothership, which I liked, maybe more than most. nytimes.com/2024/11/04/art…

I interviewed Neil Druckmann on his first new story in nearly 15 years — what to expect from Intergalactic and a return to Naughty Dog's action-adventure roots ... 🧵

NEW: 2020's Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War cost $700 million to develop across its "lifecycle" (+ marketing) I found that and budgets for other CoDs buried in a new court filing People talk about soaring dev costs. These are the highest ever disclosed gamefile.news/p/call-of-duty…

I'm back at it! I begin this year's series of New York Times game columns with the generally compelling #EnderMagnolia #bloominthemist from Binary Haze Interactive. nytimes.com/2025/01/29/art…

Eternal Strands (PC, PS5, Xbox - w/ Game Pass) is a great, smartly made third-person fantasy action game full of fun systems to tinker with From my review, here's creative director Mike Laidlaw describing to me how they handle fire spells. So good! gamefile.news/p/eternal-stra…

I mostly had fun with Skate City: New York from Snowman! Here's my New York Times review! nytimes.com/2025/01/31/art…

For the 25th anniversary of The Sims, I spoke to the game's creator Will Wright about gods and ants. nytimes.com/2025/02/04/art…