Gaming

Full-motion VR is legit.

Chris Roberts is brilliant, boundary-pushing, and stubborn as hell. But that’s what it takes to make the most ambitious video game in history.

Enjoy Ramin Djawadi’s music while crushing aliens (instead of having your soul crushed).

It’s finally (almost) here.

After years of development and fundraising, the game’s titanic budget can match its lofty ambitions.

In a Brooklyn basement, a group of wargamers breathe life into tabletop games played with models, miniatures, dice and intense strategy.

A 10-player game breaks all the rules of arcade gaming, and may be coming soon to a city near you.

Esports are a multimillion-dollar industry, but remain a mystery to most Americans.

What do Pac-Man, Halo, Limbo and Minecraft have in common?

Madden has ballooned into a giant franchise with countless competitive players and YouTube personalities.

Video games, booze and friends — when you’ve shaken off your winter cabin fever in full, they provide at least one good reason to come back inside.

After nearly a decade of increasingly stale franchises, disappointments and PR nightmares, why are some calling E3 2015 the best installment in years?

Zwift is the marriage of video games and cycling trainers.

Consoles don’t provide much in the way of portability (anyone else ever own this masterpiece of engineering?), and grown men carrying Gameboys often attract the wrong kind of attention, but mobile games offer interactive experiences on the devices that most of us carry every day. They allow us a bit of serenity when we need it most — in the airport, on the subway, at a questionable mid-life Bris.

Since 2010, several iOS games have tried to match Infinity Blade’s incredible combination of artistry and narrative, our favorites being The Room and Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP. On April 3rd, 2014, a new challenger stepped into the arena: Monument Valley, an M.C.

Titanfall starts with some 1960s stock footage of rockets. There is a voiceover.

You’re sitting on the grid at Road America in a classic Lotus 79. The red turns green and you light ‘em up.

The Hulk to your Smartphone's Bruce Banner

Get your head in the game

Slice through competition