Riot Games answered my questions about its Valorant esports overhaul

Plus: A positive reaction from a tier 2 org owner, and skeptical one from a coach who asked to remain anonymous

Why the New York Times got into multiplayer games

Crossplay, the paper's foray into pvp, features some genuinely delightful tech under the hood

Exit Interview: Joseph Cross

Marathon's former franchise art director talks leaving Bungie and devising a visual style that might have felt "a little bit nerve-racking to fund"

The Official ReaderGrev Game & Stuff of the Year List 2025

Not the best stuff but the best list.

Saudi version of EWC video series censors LGBTQ+ references, criticisms of event

A Team Liquid CEO opened up about being gay in 'Esports World Cup: Level Up.' His remarks were removed from the version of the series streamed to viewers in Saudi Arabia.

How Bracket City went from diner placemats to The Atlantic's 'digital puzzle empire'

Add another word game to your rotation of daily puzzles published by news organizations

Two years of ReaderGrev

Plus: How long should you play a game before writing about it?

Some notes on my Valorant and Esports World Cup coverage

A sort-of mini edition of How to Read Articles

Luigi Mangione is a gamer. What does that tell us?

There are limits to what you can learn about a person from the games they play.

The mystery of the anonymous esports manifesto

What is the Open Esports Initiative?

Some notes on 'The internet looks right wing'

Also: A 'young men go right wing' reading list

I'm going (more) independent (again)

A mini postmortem for my Patreon with Jacob Wolf + what's next!

Esports journalism's institutional memory problem

A reader asks: I churned out of esports journalism. Can the next generation be helped?

Reporting critically in a cliquey environment

A reader asks: I'm worried that writing negative stories will land me on a blacklist. Help!

Some notes on Dr Disrespect and 'Now they tell us'

Plus: A brief follow-up on 'POV your Valorant esports team is falling apart'

The (e)sportswashing reading list

Some resources (no apologia!) for folks curious about sportswashing

Some notes on 'The paranoid style in video game culture'

I wanted to freestyle about the things that didn't make it into the original essay

Some notes on ‘Riot should kick EG out of Valorant’

The piece could have been more fiercely-worded...