My latest weird idea, Polygon’s Indie Developer Science Fair, is a package of 17 projects that we asked developers to make to show their games in creative ways. An augmented reality app, a Twine game, screenshots that work with cardboard 3-D glasses, etc. This partly came about because I’d been building a list of developer requests that…

For Polygon’s third cover story, I put together an online magazine about Japan’s game industry. It’s fairly common these days to see stories summing up what’s happening in Japan. So I went another direction and decided to focus on specific examples — people struggling to get funding, working with Western publishers, succeeding in mobile, going independent, etc.…

The blessing and curse of 1UP’s early cover stories was that each ran over the course of five days, which was great in that it forced us to think of alternative content to fill the daily slots, and frustrating in that some days inevitably ended up stronger than others. With this God of War cover, for…