-
Rent Video Games
Aug
31
[Thought it might be apposite to reprint Brandon Sheffield’s write-up of the Ken Levine keynote at PAX here on GSW, because although — hey — it’s not exactly about video games, it’s about that mental state that makes core gamers predisposed to adore games as a medium. Fun stuff.]
On the opening day of the Penny […]
Aug
31
Aha, once again it is time to pick the best posts of the week from big sister site Gamasutra and elsewhere on our Think Services sites/blogs - headed up by a pair of fine features talking about production and game design.
Firstly, Epic’s Rod Fergusson tries to explain how they’re ratcheting up things to, uhh, […]
Aug
31
[Unfortunately, I can’t be at PAX this year, since it’s the GDC Advisory Board meeting this weekend. But fortunately enough, Gamasutra and Game Developer folks like Chris Remo and Brandon Sheffield are covering the show - and here’s Remo’s write-up on rather smart Jamie Cheng - interested to see how his Nexon title does!]
Just a […]
Aug
30
Yeehaw, time for GameSetLinks, and there’s a fun set of randomness in here, with everything from a new trailer for the LucasArts-ian A Vampyre Story through Nokia’s Scott Foe on the (pictured) Reset Generation, as well as Kohler discussing the new craziness from Japanese quirkoid developers Skip.
It’s very cool, actually, when developers are individual […]
Aug
30
Dungeons and Dragons on Facebook
Category: PC, RPG, Dungeons and Dragons, Facebook | 
Leave a Comment
If you’re a nerd then there’s a good change that you have at least a semi-appreciation for Dungeons and Dragons. Unfortunatly for me, I was never really able to get into the game because I never had enough friends who were interested in it enough to play. Hey, it sucks being a nerd in a […]
Aug
30
Bambi in World of Warcraft
Category: PC, General, Previews, The Funnies, Video Game, World Of Warcraft, Disney, Bambi | Leave a Comment
I’m not really into games like World of Warcraft, mainly because of the monthly fee and also because I fear having any kind of obligation to play a game in able to do anything to get to the “good parts”. Still, I’m amused by the fact that a deer very similar to Bambi named […]
Aug
30
COLUMN: ‘Game Mag Weaseling’: Mag Roundup 8/30/08
Category: Column: Game Mag Weaseling | Leave a Comment
Hello! My name is Akemi Kamio and I work PR at Konami! Or, at least, I did back in 1986 when Famicom Tsushin did this very small portrait of me back when they were trying to start the “Akemi Kamio Fan Club” in an attempt to give the 8-bit video game world a sexy idol […]
Aug
30
[Every week, IndieGames.com: The Weblog editor Tim W. will be summing up some of the top free-to-download and commercial indie games from the last seven days, as well as any notable features on his sister ’state of indie’ weblog.]
This week on ‘Best Of Indie Games’, we take a look at some of the top independent […]
Aug
29
My XBox 360 Broke Part III (For Sure)
Category: Xbox 360, Microsoft, Hardware, suck | Leave a Comment
I might as well just devote 1pstart in its entirety to my Xbox 360 breaking, since it seems to happen enough to make it worthwhile. So as you can probably tell from the title, the thing finally errored out. It finally seized up a couple of times on the 360 logo and then eventually gave […]
Aug
29
Opinion: ‘gg Game Auteur, no re’
Category: | Leave a Comment
[In an in-depth opinion piece, game designer and researcher Douglas Wilson urges more collaborative approaches to game design, suggesting that “the ‘auteur’ school of game development is not only outmoded, but dangerous to the vitality of the medium”.]
As I see it, indie game culture faced a major crossroads at the 2008 Nordic Game Jam.
The biggest […]