I know I’m late on this one. Like, years late according to internet age (a couple of weeks here), but I had to get this off my chest.
Glenn, I used to like you. I know this will probably turn off a bunch of readers, but to hell with anyone who stops reading my [...]

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Someone’s finally done it. Guitar Hero for the DS has finally made a commercial more awkward than the Westwood College gaming commercial. It’s like some kind of cable-access version of a bad Bud Light Presents: Real Men of Genius rip off.
I mean, this isn’t even good-bad. It’s hella bad:

And here’s the [...]

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Back at the GDC Game Design class I took, one of the things they really stressed was “fiction.” Making sure your game adhered to a fiction could help set it apart, make it stick in someone’s head, or even help make your game mechanic make a bit more sense. It’s important for something [...]

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At first I was full of righteous indignation about Michael Hollick’s story in the NY Times the other day about his “less than stellar pay.” I mean, come on, you poor baby, you didn’t get royalties? Get in line, dude. You got a hundred thousand dollars for part time work over 15 [...]

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I really, really want to get my hands on some kind of Euphoria demo, in order to either support or assuage my fears regarding the “better than rag doll” solution that Natural Motion has come out with, but I just can’t get over all of the tiny voices in the back of my head that [...]

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I finally got off my rear and went with a friend to go see the new Speed Racer movie last night, and I’m really glad I did. Not only am I a humongous Speed Racer fan from back when it originally aired on TV here in the states, I’m a fan of the Wachowskis [...]

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Randall Munroe over at the always kickass and occassionally deep webcomic xkcd posted some interesting stats over on his blog last month, where he asks his readers to quickly name a recent popular movie that had two female leads as the top billed stars of the movie.
Naturally, it’s a trick question, as the stats reveal [...]

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Awhile back Clint Hocking wrote a pretty kickass piece critiquing Bioshock’s Ludonarrative Dissonance. For a long time I wasn’t sure what the hell he was getting at with the word “Ludonarrative,” and after I just recently did an interview for a gaming journalism student, I learned that he had combined the terms “Ludology” and [...]

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Forbes jumps on the “Nintendo is in Trouble!” bandwagon a bit in a recent article lamenting the lack of some GTA IV on the Wii platform. Somehow, they make a mental leap which figures that GTA IV is going to put a dent in or decrease the flow of titles and systems flying off [...]

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