The site is getting slammed presently due to the Portal piece generating more traffic than my server has connections to serve. I’ve looked into upgrading the account, but it’s not a bandwidth thing, it’s a connections issue. Game-ism is pretty much suffering from a live unintentional DoS attack.
I doubt it’s going to improve [...]

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Not exactly conclusive scientific evidence, but Fake Plastic Rock finds proof that Rock Band can teach you to play the drums. Kevin from G4’s Attack of the show actually substitutes on drums for Coheed and Cambria. Like, the real band.

Now if only I could show you legally how WWIIOnline taught me how to [...]

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Every 3 months or so, Pottery Barn Kids releases a new catalog, showing off their poorly made and horribly overpriced wares for all of suburbia to drool over. And every 3 months, I typically see yet another pathetic attempt to grasp at the “gaming” zeitgeist by a bunch of ad/catalog people who evidently know [...]

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Okay, so the Daily Mail’s review of violent video games might be the most laughable tripe that side of the pond, but oh sweet zombie jebus, their photoshop skills are worse. They ran this image of Anne Diamond, their “expert” on violent video games (can you hear my eyes rolling?), which on the surface [...]

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I’ve got a lot I’d like to post about, but not a whole lot of time, so you get some kickass links for today.
First: what I can only describe as videogames for dogs. Seriously, this must be what we look like to dogs when we play videogames.

Unfortunately it turns out this dog would [...]

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Clint demonstrates how it’s done with style:  Mr. Hocking challenges the head of the Canadian Teacher’s Federation (who wishes to ban Bully) to actually play Bully with him, and he’ll even buy her a 360 or Wii and a copy of the game.
Will she take him up on his offer?  I seriously hope so.  This [...]

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I’m sure smarter people than me have already broken down comparisons of Professional Gaming to Professional Sports, but since this is my design journal, I figured I’d capture some of my own feelings on the matter.*
Now that I’ve had an opportunity to play some in my first real game tournament (one against game development peers, [...]

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I’ve been slammed with doing my GDC write-up for work the past couple of nights.
In the mean-time, check out this great call for more game critique.
I guess I need to start taking out ads or something to get noticed.

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Missed the Force Unleashed prezo today because I was almost running late and in my haste forgot to grab my badge.  Brilliant.  I’m pretty sure it’s online somewhere, so I should run off and read it later.  I really wanted to see how they integrated Euphoria now that it’s not a complete joke and looks [...]

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As I mentioned in the previous post, I’m taking the Game Design Workshop while at GDC, and it’s a bit of a mixed bag.
On one hand, I’m being asked to think about game types that I wouldn’t actually ever make at my current job.  It’s nice to look at hypotheticals and come up with interesting [...]

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