I work in the video game industry, so I tend to think of life in these terms. For example, when I was pregnant with my daughter, I realized that pregnancy is essentially a really immersive resource-conservation RPG. I was always asking myself questions like: “Do I pick up this stuff…

Greetings from an ethnic librarian working in the games industry! I’m posting this review of my experience last year at GDC (the Game Developers Conference) held every year here in San Francisco. It was originally part of a letter to my team here at Linden Lab, but I thought you…

Ladies and Gentlemen: I’m coming out. As a gamer. I game. I play video games. I enjoy shooting digital things. I have the ability to navigate three-dimensional space. There, I said it. I don’t know what I was afraid of. I’m not going to be stereotyped. As far as I…