Use Your Words- Apple Watch and the Devolution of Language

My new feature for 148Apps. The title says it all. Check it out!

Entering the Thought Processes Behind the Weirdest Video Games Titles Around

Check out my latest feature, Entering the Thought Processes Behind the Weirdest Video Games Titles Around, on The A.V. Club. Hope it's as fun to read as it was to write.

The Rise of Facebook Games and Teaching the Game Developers of Tomorrow

In 2011 I wrote a pair of features I'm very proud of for Yahoo's contributor program. Unfortunately, the program has now been shut down leaving these stories without a home. So I fixed that. Here they are!

The Rise of Facebook Games and Teaching the Game Developers of Tomorrow

Video Games' Afrofuturism Frontier

My first feature for Media Diversified examines what video games could stand to learn from the Afrofuturism artistic aesthetic. Check it out!

http://mediadiversified.org/2014/07/19/video-games-afrofuturism-frontier/

From Big Screens to Touch Screens

Movie tie-in games have been making the move to mobile... for better or worse.

Check out my latest feature for The Escapist!

On the Politics of Pikmin

You know what's awful and tedious about being a journalist? Transcribing hours of interviews. You know what's a great distraction from transcribing interviews? Having a wonderfully thoughtful conversation on the nature and ideology of Nintendo's Pikmin series with my good friend and fellow recent Medill graduate Anna "Anne" Frank. So here it is, mildly edited.

So I Graduated College...

Today, I graduated from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. So I'm now just a journalist, not a journalism student. When I tweeted that out, game developer Gut Shot Games tweeted me this picture back.

So I'm not just a journalist, but, now more than ever, a games journalist.


I don't even like dogs.