The Music, The Moments: Rockstar’s GTA V Versus Red Dead Redemption

In which the author as music critic descends far into the often exhilarating, often mellifluous worlds of Rockstar’s carefully curated soundtracks. He may never return. But he’s happy about that. By Robert Gordon Rockstar has dominated this console generation in terms of open-world gameplay — not merely with two well-received entries into the Grand Theft…

Narrative’s Mass Effect: What We Should Talk About When We Talk About Talking

by Robert Gordon The author writes about what dialogue really means in role playing games — and what it should mean in the future. The survivor is panicking under the pulse of the pistol, her pistol, set against her own temple. A second ago it was trained on you, but the mission is to talk…