knockknock.biz luggage tags. Photo courtesy of justinph. I guess it's finally time for me to level up. It was the summer of '99 when I convinced my then editor to send me on a tour of the U.S. videogame industry. When I finally returned three weeks later, my head was still spinning. I felt as though I'd seen the future of entertainment. It ...

  Anyone who's been a faithful reader of Level Up knows we have some pet themes to which we keep returning. Among them: games are not a fundamentally narrative medium; we all ''see'' games with our hands; we videogame journalists need to develop a critical vocabulary that will enable us to better explain the unique qualities of this art ...

 A cover for the comic book ''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen,'' written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O'NeillIn Part I of our critique of level designer and blogger Steve Gaynor's assertion that ''video games will never become a significant form of cultural discourse the way that novels and film have,'' we talked about how ...

 A cover of the acclaimed comic book ''Planetary.'' Written by Warren Ellis; illustrated by John Cassaday The babe in his cradle is closing his eyesThe blossom embraces the beeBut soon says a whisper, arise, ariseTomorrow belongs to me--''Tomorrow Belongs to Me'' from the musical ''Cabaret,'' music and lyrics by John Kander and Fred EbbA bet ...

Regular readers of our daily High Score posts know that GameSetWatch is a blog that we here at Level Up very much enjoy. So it is with something approaching great reluctance that we take issue with its January 2nd post, titled ''GameSetChat: How Do Wii Judge Fun For Mainstream Gamers?'' In it, site editor and man-of-many-hats Simon Carless ...