Why Tetris Still Works at 40 — A Look at the Blocks We Can’t Let Go
What is it about a forty-year-old game that just refuses to die? Not just survive—thrive. Tetris has sold over half a billion copies across every platform imaginable.
What It Takes Two Gets Right About Co-op Relationships
Why does a game about divorce work better as a co-op experience than every dedicated couples’ therapy app on the market?
Super Mario 64 Taught Us How to Move in 3D — and Games Never Looked Back
Super Mario 64 holds up because its levels are rooms, not playgrounds. That distinction is why every 3D platformer since 1996 has been chasing it and why most have fallen short.
Black Myth: Wukong and What It Means to Build Combat Around Soul
There’s a particular hubris in thinking you can adapt Journey to the West into a video game. Not because the source material lacks gameable elements—far from it—but because the story has been adapted, reimagined, and reinterpreted across four centuries.