Rooftop Shouting

For Polygon’s third cover story, I put together an online magazine about Japan’s game industry. It’s fairly common these days …

I tend to like stories about games that have been in development for a long time — seeing what kinds of …

I’ve wanted to do a story on game industry agents for years, but was always looking for the right way to …

At E3 this year, Ubisoft flew in Tetris license holders Alexey Pajitnov and Henk Rogers to promote the latest version of …

This is one of those ideas that came up a lot over the years: “Wouldn’t it be fun to dig up …

I didn’t plan this, but over the past year I’ve basically done a series of ‘where are they now’ stories …

About two years ago, Vanity Fair ran an oral history of The Sopranos. That approach is nothing new and Vanity …

Awhile back, I saw a magazine story with Matt Stone and Trey Parker drawn as South Park characters. I think it …

When developer Game Republic shut down in 2011, rumors suggested it wasn’t under the best of circumstances. So two years later, …

As the head of Osaka’s critically acclaimed developer Platinum Games, Tatsuya Minami’s role is mostly business these days, but his …

I suppose you can consider this part two in a series on canceled projects designed to make players cry, following …

In 2007, Wired published a cover story on Microsoft Labs’ high tech data crunching and analysis used to support the development …

Lawsuits and a falling out with Midway: the story of what happens when a game becomes a phenomenon and not …

It’s a lot easier to write a story about someone who make games when he puts himself in the game. Weirdest …

This is one of those stories I bothered Sony about for a year before it came together, and then once …

Before Street Fighter 2 snowballed the arcade industry, Takashi Nishiyama and his team created a predecessor remembered more for awkward …

When I was working on 1UP’s short-lived magazine, I wanted to center an issue around a sketch theme, with pen …

At the 2011 Tokyo Game Show, Jeremy Parish, Thierry Nguyen, and I scheduled interviews with developers who had been affected …

I’ve always liked magazine theme issues — how Esquire does its Meaning of Life installments, or Vanity Fair’s and GQ’s …

With The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, Starbreeze broke out as a developer, acclaimed for its tech abilities …