Russ Pitts

A fight club on top of the world

The birth of Xbox Live

How Games Are Made: Defense Grid 2

Bungie unveils its Destiny

Cloned at Birth: The Story of Ridiculous Fishing

They Could be Heroes: Conifer Games At the Gates

The Making of XCOM's Jake Solomon

Finding Oswald's Voice

The mirror men of Arkane

Don't be a hero - The full story behind Spec Ops: The Line

Mojang v. Bethesda, or: I Hate it When Mommy and Daddy Fight [UPDATE]

An Exclusive Interview With Yahtzee

Captain Peevish

I could totally do it. I could be a superhero. I like to think I have a good sense of right and wrong. My momma raised me right. I believe in being honest, forthright and kind. I believe in the power of generosity, the power of good and the right of…

Play On: The Composers Behind Today’s Game Music

“If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.” -William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night That game music and popular music are two separate beats, banged out on two separate drums,…

From Borg to Boss

Before Halo, Gears of War, Games for Windows Magazine and even Xbox, Microsoft was a software company which had made its billions by doing the one thing it did best: buying other companies and, to quote Star Trek, assimilating their technological and…

OK Computer

When talking about “hands on” gaming, there are multiple avenues of respectable journalism to pursue, as my colleagues in this issue will ably demonstrate. There is, however, really only one road down which my own mind was willing to travel, and not…

“I’m Evil”

Jack, John and Joe are talking about games. Jack has played a new game. He likes it. He tells John and Joe, who, knowing Jack’s reputation for giving games a fair, balanced review, and that their tastes and his are often similar, decide that it’s a…