Video Games

Nintendo Forms Partnership to Develop Mobile Games

By NICK WINGFIELD

Nintendo, the video game maker that has long resisted a move to devices like smartphones, said it and DeNA would team up to create mobile games.

Critic’s Notebook

Virtual Reality’s Potential Displayed at Game Developers Conference

By CHRIS SUELLENTROP

How to make the virtual-reality experience more immersive and satisfying was part of this year’s conference in San Francisco.

In the Documentary ‘GTFO,’ Female Video Gamers Fight Back

By ROBERT ITO

Shannon Sun-Higginson’s documentary talks to female video game players and designers about the pervasive sexism in the video game industry.

Gadgetwise

Taking Video Games to the Next Level

By GREGORY SCHMIDT

Some notable accessories that will help improve your game.

Monty Oum, Web-Series Animator, Dies at 33

By DANIEL E. SLOTNIK

Mr. Oum was the director of animation for Rooster Teeth Productions, a company best known for repurposing avatars from the Halo video games into angst-ridden slackers in the popular web series “Red vs. Blue.”

• An Animator’s Death Releases a Flood of Sadness

Video Game Review

Enticing All to See the Bigger Picture

By CHRIS SUELLENTROP

The Talos Principle, a new video game, includes a focus on questions about religion and consciousness.

Critic’s Notebook

To a Gamer, Minimalism Is a Virtue

By STEPHEN TOTILO

A Dark Room, a video game, pulls players in despite a lack of bells and whistles.

‘Monster Strike’ Gives Former Social Media Giant Mixi a Second Act

By JONATHAN SOBLE

Mixi was a once-dominant social network that Facebook had driven to the edge of collapse — and then it created the mobile game Monster Strike.