Chris Suellentrop

For decades, video games have mystified people who don’t play them. The New York Times Magazine grappled in 1974 with the emergence of the arcade game – calling it “the space age pinball machine” – in Manhattan bars. What was this new coin-operated amusement? If not a kind of pinball, was it some sort of … Continue reading Sorry, video games probably aren’t making you smarter

“That Dragon, Cancer” is a video game about Joel Green, a terminally ill 5-year-old, and his parents, Ryan and Amy. It is a game about a single life — one that ends and then is gone forever.