Brian Crecente

Like its music, like its art, Cuba is a complex, colorful mash-up of dichotomous ideas, cultures and emotions…

Redefining esports

When I first heard the story, I thought it was an urban legend. Like Mikey's stomach, infused with a deadly c…

This week doesn't mark just the launch of Ubisoft's latest new franchise with the release of Tom Clancy's The…

Time killers: The strange history of wrist gaming

Take an exclusive in-depth look at how Epic Games has evolved from Gears of War into "Epic 4.0.

Time, place, even a sense of self can lose meaning in these creations weaved from the gossamer threads of fac…

The greatest threat to the video game industry may be some of its most impassioned fans. Increasingly, game d…

Identified by eye color, hair color, height and weight. Then fingerprinted, mug shot taken, an affidavit sign…

It started out as a way to stop pigs awaiting slaughter from chewing on each other. But video game design ini…

Gun violence is so pervasive, so deadly an issue in America that it should be treated and researched as a con…

Don't get thrown by causality

One of the world's largest and most respected humanitarian groups in the world is investigating whether the G…

This story starts, as so many great ones do, with a classified ad: "I will take bullets for you," it read. An…

Spore, Will Wright's far-reaching game about life, the universe and everything, is a journey, not just from m…

The sunken city of Rapture, a world of art deco aesthetics, neon sales pitches and looming architecture, is h…

Just hours after the shooting on the Virginia Tech campus, Jack Thompson worked his way onto national televis…

A killer and his three victims - case closed. But the cut-and-dried theories about Miles Dabord and Bison Del…

Dank pumped his legs, powering a bicycle around the manicured lawns and shiny cars of Highlands Ranch. He was…

Cops shooting at cars spurred nearly all of the discipline handed out by the Denver Police Department for pol…

He speaks of death and killing through pale, chapped lips. Watches for a reaction through pale blue eyes. Bla…

It was a sweet deal: Don't worry about crashes or road work, just write traffic tickets and rake in the money…

Jason D'Auria walks barefoot into the moonlit waters of the canal, pulls mosquito netting around his face and…