A mixed bag this week, as only a couple of these can be lumped in with the various gaming curios I usually link to here. The rest are more research for That Next Thing I haven’t had a chance to talk about further, and while all great in their own right may not be as [...]
Ah, Friday. And with it, links: One of the most interesting details regarding the forthcoming PC-version of Assassin’s Creed was the promise of new pre-kill missions you could perform. The utter lack of variety in these missions (which make up the vast majority of gameplay) were one of several problems I mentioned a while back, [...]
A bit brief this week – the gaming world is still gentle rocking in the wake of GDC, with the only big news people are talking about being EA’s attempted buyout of Take-Two. Luckily, there are still a few things not involving stock prices and alleged shadiness, so shall we? First, Andy Biao of waxy.org [...]
The 2008 Game Developers Conference is currently consuming San Francisco, clogging the city with the best and brightest (and assorted others) the industry has to offer. I’m not there, alas, but by means of a series of tubes connecting my computrons to the other side of the country, I can at least keep up with [...]
Doing a bit of blog maintenance while putting off actual work, it appears that, rather than being swallowed up by the gaping maul of the interwubs, the lost Link Roundup from a couple of weeks ago was actually saved and buried in my draft posts. No idea how, or why it ended up in a [...]
David Finkel, co-executive producer of 30 Rock (and therefore one of the greatest living Americans of our generation) has written a rather great justification of Guitar Hero and Rock Band for What They Play, a site intended to give parents an understanding of the games their children and help them find more games to enjoy. [...]
Since the first one of these went well, why not a second? Brenda Brathwaite, game designer and professor of game development at SCAD, has seen the future of gaming on Facebook. And it’s a bit shit. Her post on looks at the four new titles from H&R Block to appear on the popular social network [...]
This might become a regular thing. It also might not. I don’t have time to do a regularly updated news site about games, as I’m often too busy making them to stop and talk about interesting bits of news as much as I’d like to. So the idea is at the end of each week [...]