The first time I played Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty, I had no idea I was experiencing the birth of a genre that would consume thousands of hours of my life. It was 1993, I was fifteen, and my friend Kevin had gotten a new PC for Christmas—a 486 DX2/66 that seemed impossibly powerful compared to my family’s aging 386. He’d invited me over specifically to show me this game based on a…
The first time I died in Quake multiplayer, I didn’t even see it coming. One moment I was cautiously navigating…
My relationship with SimCity began on a rainy Saturday in 1992 when my dad came home from a garage sale…
The first time I fired the NES Zapper at our wood-paneled Zenith television, I was convinced I was witnessing actual…
It started with a whisper. Scott Thompkins, a quiet kid who sat two rows ahead of me in Ms. Harrington’s…
I first played Alone in the Dark on a sticky summer night in 1993, sitting in my friend Kevin’s basement…
Watching Fallout’s sixth episode last night felt like that moment in Fallout 3 when you first emerge from Vault 101—disorienting,…
The second episode of The Last of Us” continues the pace of the first. Titled Infected, it dives deeper into…
I played the Left Behind DLC on a rainy Sunday in February 2014, a few months after finishing the main…
Shadow of the Past plunges deeply into the secrets and histories of the characters. As Sarah Foster’s group is plagued…
The first time I played Minecraft, I thought it was the ugliest game I’d ever seen. It was 2010, and…
I’ve always been a video game guy. From the moment my dad brought home that NES in ’85, I’ve had…
Episode 3 of The Last of Us TV series, titled Long, Long Time, marks a significant departure from the primary…
The year was 1999, and I was slouched on my friend Mark’s basement couch, watching him play some new skateboarding…
There are certain gaming experiences that burn themselves into your memory—moments so intense that your palms sweat just thinking about…
