Video games: news, theory & analysis.
Video games: news, theory & analysis.
Well, it seems the cat is out of the bag. Officially it'll be announced at GDC'08, but I suppose Dean Takahashi couldn't wait. — read on
After the exciting release of the report that I wrote with DFC Intelligence on the game activities of big media companies, Business Week is running a story this week that seems informed by my writing. — read on
I quit. The past several months I haven't even once thought about playing. It was only when I kept noticing these recurrent charges on my credit card that I felt it was time. Thank you, Blizzard, but no thanks. — read on
This goes towards two, coincidentally related, momentous occurrences within the past 24 hours. First, I sat down for some coffee with Aram Sinnreich. Second, someone has proven to be so successful in organizing all the music that I enjoy that I'm seriously considering buying one of them iPods. — read on
Over the past year I've been working with David Cole from DFC Intelligence on a report that investigates all the videogame-related activity of media companies. And it's finally available. — read on
Today I got word that Computer Games as a Sociocultural Phenomenon is available. Woo hoo. You'll find me right in the front of the book, in between the Introduction and Ian Bogost. Not a bad place to be. — read on
Obviously, if you're going to describe reality with numbers then you inevitably make some assumptions. One such an assumption would be that no one will have more than 2^31 gold. Or, more precisely, "214,748 gold, 36 silver, 48 copper." — read on
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