Kurt Andersen and Slate journalist Clive Thompson discuss about how video games are taking over the world - from the front lines of the war in Iraq to the New York art scene.

If you haven't played a videogame since Ms. Pac-Man, you probably have some catching up to do. Kurt makes it easy with a quick guided tour of the state of the art. Produced by Curtis Fox.

In the mid-90s, the U.S. military discovered that Marines were customizing the video game Doom to practice warfare, which prompted the Marine Corps to develop its own version of the game as an actual training tool. Now the military is busy developing incredibly realistic video games that help soldiers anticipate ...

Imagine walking through an art gallery and finding a single wall of digital clouds lifted from the classic "80" Nintendo game Super Mario Brothers. Cory Arcangel, the young artist behind the project, explains to Rebecca Cascade why reprogramming video game software comes as naturally ...

He lives in Austin, not L.A. He enjoys a level of creative freedom few filmmakers can afford. He jumps from quasi-animated philosophical films like A Scanner Darkly to mainstream comedies like School of Rock to classic romances like Before Sunset. Writer-director Richard Linklater talks with