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PC sanctuary 9 Jul 2012 | 10:41 pm
Once I was a proper geek. I played tabletop sims. I built my own computers. I copied code from Creative Computing magazine. I loaded Pool of Radiance from a 5¼" floppy disc. I was a BBS SysOp. A geek ...
Fish in a barrel 26 Jun 2012 | 12:10 am
E3 killed my desire to play games. After three days of wandering two massive expo halls filled with games, I found myself gripped by a powerful urge to hug my analog family and flee into analog nature...
High Noon for Shooters 2 Jun 2012 | 02:09 pm
"It's abundantly clear that we're living in the age of the shooter. The category dominates sales charts...gripping audiences with its versatility. The stories we remember most end up being told d...
Comfy conditioning chamber 23 May 2012 | 03:23 am
Diablo 3 is exactly the kind of game I should hate. Blizzard’s latest dungeon-crawling loot-fest relies on a checklist of design elements that typically drive me screaming into the night: Derivative ...
Wholesome cacophony 7 May 2012 | 11:41 pm
If forceful writing inspires assessment and introspection - with a dash of outrage and resistance - Taylor Clark’s Atlantic profile of Jonathan Blow was potent stuff. I responded here, aided by 350 re...
I got your smart games right here. 25 Apr 2012 | 09:39 pm
There's no nice way to say this, but it needs to be said: video games, with very few exceptions, are dumb. And they’re not just dumb in the gleeful, winking way that a big Hollywood movie is dumb; the...
Dissident designer 19 Apr 2012 | 04:05 am
The 8000-word profile of Jonathan Blow that appears in this month’s Atlantic Magazine reveals a game designer behaving as dissident artists have behaved for centuries: defiantly rejecting popular para...
Brainy Gamer Podcast - Episode 36 9 Apr 2012 | 09:21 pm
The Brainy Gamer podcast is back! In this edition I talk with Stephen Totilo, editor-in-chief of Kotaku, one of the most influential blogs websites devoted to video games in the world. Stephen and I d...
Journey as Flow 2 Apr 2012 | 11:09 pm
Mapping out a sky.What you feel like, planning a sky.What you feel when voices that comeThrough the windowGo until they distance and die,Until there's nothing but sky. -Stephen Sondheim, "Finish...
Seeking the light 28 Mar 2012 | 10:56 pm
You’ll be on your way up! You’ll be seeing great sights! You’ll join the high fliers Who soar to high heights. –Dr. Seuss The best games are travelogues. Returning home, we ...
