“I haven’t played Street Fighter in years,” Mike said as he awkwardly picked up the controller. Mike, a friend I’ve known since junior high school, but I hadn’t seen in years, had never really played much of the Xbox at all either. He was used to the Playstation controller. But he shrugged [...]

“The actual experience of playing Guitar Hero is nothing like playing a real guitar,” says Andrew Clarke, “and it’s because you’re basically just following instructions. You’re just following along with something that has already been written. You’re just concentrating on an on and off switch, hitting the right notes at the right time. That’s [...]