Warning: This feature contains a minor spoiler for The Last of Us: Left Behind. Writing can make or break a game. It takes many forms - from dialogue to in-game literature, voiceovers or even scripted ...

Yesterday, we published the first part of this two-part special on writing for games, in which five successful writers talked us through a brief history of storytelling in video games. Today, we ...

The problem with writing in games is that we point out when it's terrible, but we don't praise it enough when it's good. Consider Half-Life 2. In the beginning of the game, you're just another ...

Over the course of this week we'll see plenty of examples of writing in games that works. Bur first, we're going to look at what can go wrong, and why it's so difficult. Being a diplomat at heart, I'm ...

Marv Wolfman is a comics legend for his work on Teen Titans, Superman and many others. For a half-dozen years, he’s been writing for video games, and he explains how both kinds of writing are about ...

The PS3 is $500 to $600. The 360 is $300 to $400. A good gaming PC can cost in the thousands. What we are we paying for? The more games I play these days, the more I see that many of the "next-gen" ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. There are many things you can do at the Game Developers Conference. You can do things like see Retro Studios dissect its work on Donkey Kong Country ...

The Nintendo DS handheld console has added handwriting recognition to its impressive arsenal of unique features, with a deal being announced this week with Zi Corporation to bring the Decuma ...

The Amazon Kindle Touch is a $99 eBook Reader with an E Ink display and support for touch input. For the most part you use touch to flip pages in books, type on an on-screen keyboard, or navigate ...