Your Critic is in Another Castle

I said on Twitter, as I played through Dragon Age: Inquisition , that I was developing a theory. The best representative of the ...

I. I surveyed the land, then built my home exactly where I pleased: just far enough away from the railroad station and center of governmen...

It's amazing how easy a trap it is to fall into, really. As a working parent of a 6-month-old, there's always something to do. I p...

> N You are in the NURSERY. > look There is a CRIB here. You hear a PURRING SOUND. > i You are carrying a BABY. > put ...

Readers will notice that posting has been extremely light and sporadic this year.  It's not that I've lost interest in games, or in ...

I have these cousins.  Or, rather, my husband has these cousins, but, y'know, family through marriage. So.  There are these cousins: t...

Your Critic's partner is usually silent on the blog; he prefers it that way.  In light of the recent Xbox One reveal announcement, howev...

Back in December, I got an e-mail that made my day.  It was an editor for Smithsonian Magazine , asking if I'd be interested in taking o...

This isn't even about the PlayStation 4 at all, actually.  My opinion on that is currently irrelevant: it seems like a PC circa 2011, on...

Kill Screen posted a single quotation today, and it struck me quite deeply.  From a Monopoly expert: "It's very seldom that yo...