It started as a pejorative to describe games that pissed off “hardcore gamers,” and blossomed into true art

Find out what happen when you combine the popular Facebook game FarmVille with unicorns, crystals and Lady Gaga

How Facebook and Google are killing the classic Internet and reinventing it in their image

Top of the frag heap: By Janelle Brown. Can the pixel-pounding success of one Quake player named Thresh turn gaming into a true professional sport?

FIFA's suspension of Russian soccer teams breaks a long tradition of neutrality in the world's dominant sport

Infrastructure still under development, but excitement reigns ahead of the World Cup.

It's a terrific sport that's on display this month. But we also need to discuss the part no one wants to talk about

Women’s sports have been stuck in a boom-and-bust cycle for the past 20 years. It’s time to start a new narrative

"By holding games on stolen land, FIFA is tarnishing the beautiful game of football," Human Rights Watch says

Artists and LGBT activists are protesting FIFA in a carnival of costumes and graffiti

Loretta Lynch’s big bust of soccer's sleazy cabal has sports fans cheering, but maybe Russia was the real target

What do women want from gaming? A few suggestions from Salon readers responding to Jane Pinckard's "Video Gaming and Its Discontents."