Gamebits

PAX East 2026 presented an unparalleled and long-awaited opportunity: my participation in the Omegathon.

Nintendo has again given us an annual reflection on our gaming habits through their year in review — except this time, they waited until January, so that December could be properly accounted for.

After six years of nomadic travel, I've noticed a pattern: most of my gaming occurs when I'm overseas.

After I waited in line for two hours this April, my preordered Nintendo Switch 2 finally became available on June 5, 2025, at GameStop in Englewood, Colorado.

When I emailed the subscribers of my quarterly print magazine, Juiced.GS, announcing that the March 2025 issue had been mailed, one of them wrote back with a non sequitur: would I want to be a guest on his gaming podcast?

For the second consecutive year, I was on stage at PAX East talking about retro games.

This week at PAX East 2025, I'll be hosting my 13th panel this Friday — and it's by far the most niche of the talks I've given at PAX: The Apple II Origins of Today's Games The Apple II is known for its impact on the workplace (VisiCalc) and education (Or…

Ever since I was old enough to drive and earn my own money, I've been preordering Nintendo's latest game consoles.

As a child of the 80s, I amassed a decent collection of video game cartridges, including 155 NES games and 69 SNES games.

My experience with video game retail is largely limited to cookie-cutter chains, whether it's a specialty store like GameStop or a big-box store like Best Buy, where purchases are entirely transactional and no relationship is established.