The year in games
Developers, critics, gamers and analysts weigh in: What they loved, what they learned, what they worried about.
Wednesday, Dec 22, 2004 8:30 PM UTCEntertainment Gaming, Video Games
Developers, critics, gamers and analysts weigh in: What they loved, what they learned, what they worried about.
Wednesday, Dec 22, 2004 8:30 PM UTCIn "Battlefield Vietnam," a new version of one of the most popular games in the U.S., you too can try to win a Silver Star saving your buddies in the jungle.
Tuesday, Apr 13, 2004 7:30 PM UTCWhy did the New York Times ignore Baghdad blogger announcements and accounts of a big pro-democracy demonstration?
Friday, Jan 23, 2004 8:30 PM UTCWhile missiles crashed around him, Zeyad struggled to keep Crash Bandicoot alive. Today, he continues to play, even as Baathist holdouts rage on and his frustrated countrymen demand a better future.
Tuesday, Jan 20, 2004 8:30 PM UTCAmerica's most bankable female movie star confesses that she is a hardcore shoot-'em-up gamer. What does this mean?
Monday, Jun 23, 2003 7:30 PM UTCJulia Roberts was my student, and I had to send her to the principal's office.
Monday, Jun 23, 2003 7:30 PM UTCDavid Kushner's new book about id Software calls the company the "Nirvana" of computer gaming. But did John Romero and John Carmack revolutionize the genre, or ruin it?
Monday, May 5, 2003 7:30 PM UTCGrand Theft Auto: Vice City goes where no video game has gone before -- into the dark heart of the 1980s.
Monday, Nov 11, 2002 3:30 PM UTCA new breed of computer games is teaching today's teenagers how to wage, and win, the war against terror.
Friday, Oct 4, 2002 10:13 PM UTCIf online role-playing games are ever going to break out of the hardcore gamer ghetto, they'll have to do more than please the geeks.
Tuesday, Jul 9, 2002 7:30 PM UTCA federal judge says computer games don't deserve First Amendment protection. His decision is wrong, stupid and dangerous.
Monday, May 6, 2002 7:30 PM UTCPlayer-created additions to computer games aren't a hobby anymore -- they're the lifeblood of the industry.
Tuesday, Apr 16, 2002 7:30 PM UTCA new game for Sony's Playstation 2 invites you to run amok as an anti-globalization anarchist. Is State of Emergency a new low in cynical corporate exploitation -- or consciousness-raising in a box?
Friday, Feb 22, 2002 8:30 PM UTCNow when will Nader, Moore, Steinem, Chomsky -- and the other leftists who were monumentally mistaken about the war in Afghanistan -- join me in admitting it?
Friday, Feb 1, 2002 2:05 AM UTCBanished from his own Ultima domains, game designer Richard Garriott is making a comeback, via Korea.
Tuesday, Dec 4, 2001 8:29 PM UTCMicrosoft's game-box revolution takes the path of mediocrity, while Sony's Playstation seizes the creative high ground.
Thursday, Nov 15, 2001 5:38 PM UTCIn the hit computer game Max Payne, death comes with a cost: Your own tortured soul.
Friday, Aug 24, 2001 7:30 PM UTCThe soft-porn fixation embarrassingly displayed at computer gaming's biggest convention, E3, is dooming the $6 billion industry to the nerd-geek ghetto.
Tuesday, May 22, 2001 7:27 PM UTCThe long-awaited game Black & White is everything fans hoped it would be: A state-of-the-art excursion into our own souls.
Tuesday, Apr 10, 2001 7:30 PM UTCSan Francisco's anti-development Prop L will squeeze tech firms into a battle for survival. And nothing could be better for them.
Monday, Nov 6, 2000 8:30 PM UTCPage 1 of 2 in Wagner James Au