May 18
Yesterday I posted my thoughts on this whole Nintendo vs. Let’s Play thing. Well, since you can find reasons against this on just about every other website, I figured I’d share this article with you by Greg Lastowka, co-director of the Rutgers Institute for Information Policy and Law. He offers some more insight into other …
May 17
A great blog post that talks about the sentimental attachment of one man and his Omastar. It’s amazing to think that his Omastar has been around for a decade. In fact, I know how he feels because I’ve had the same Froslass since the end of high school all the way to graduation college. I …
May 16
A study was released yesterday that shows that video game piracy is not as high as the game industry might have led us to believe. While many, such as myself, believe piracy to just as immoral as it is illegal, there are just as many who believe that some of the measures to prevent piracy …
May 04
So Sarkeesian’s Tropes Vs. Women didn’t really work out. By that I of course mean that it didn’t really take an objective stance on the subject and instead relied on cherry picking information so that they would be out of context to make a point that no body else agrees with. So let’s try …
May 02
A blog post by Paul Sztajer discusses 7 things that have to work together in a game story. It’s a good list, and he urges others to add to it, but for right now I would just like to comment on it. The first point he talks about his “the gameplay meaning”. This basically …
May 02
I think the main problem with people who pirates games, is that they see it as a victimless crime. Even the people who don’t pirate but don’t understand DRM can’t quite see things from the developer’s perspective. Well, hopefully, Game Dev Tycoon is that game that can show people how the industry isn’t necessarily money …
Apr 24
So EA “won” the worst company award for the 2nd year in row. Now, I know what you are probably thinking, “how could EA get this when so many other companies in the world have helped destroyed the world rather than just produce a bad game?” Well Destructoid has an article that hopes to explain …
Apr 23
This Kotaku article is is from an anonymous game publisher and is a rebuttal to last week’s anonymous game developer’s article. It’s definitely a kind of sobering read, a kind of wake-up slap for anyone riled up in an anti-publisher fervor after last week. A lot of the things he (or she) says makes …
Apr 20
An interesting article on Gamasutra about how a small team can weed out bad ideas and be left with only a hit game. This seems like a pretty good system for any team that is unsure about the best way for a concept to really flourish. I wonder how well this would work in smaller …
Apr 19
An interesting blog post by cosplayer Meagan Marie who explains why she cosplays. At the same time, she goes into the kind of sexist attitude that plagues the art both internally and externally. It’s pretty unfortunate that it happens and it seems the inspiration for this article is Marie’s uncomfortableness with being examined and judged …
Apr 18
This brilliant article from Kotaku by an anonymous game developer calling for the need of better publishers. All I can say is yes, yes, a thousand times yes. I am currently in the process of starting a studio with a friend, because we have both become disillusioned with the way the mainstream gaming industry …
Apr 14
Kotaku has written up a great article analyzing Metacritic and it’s role in the game industry. It’s amazing how a site that not-so-simply collects review scores can influence everything from sales to bonuses. While the article goes into much greater detail, I still fume over the idea that the makers of Fallout: New Vegas lost …
Mar 30
Gamasutra has posted an excellent blog by Philip Athans on the subject of authorship in games. It talks about how authorship and what defines it has changed around since the earliest games and how authorship is really ill-defined in other industries as well. Personally, the idea of authorship. I hope to one day have …
Mar 29
I don’t watch shows like The Big Bang Theory because I hear it basically makes fun of nerds and geeks, and basically anyone who is passionate about their hobbies. In fact, I don’t like a lot of show and media that basically make fun of me. I only mention this because I really like where …
Mar 23
Kotaku ran an article the other day about the career of video game personality Adam Sessler. It details how a man who sort lost interest in video games became one of the the industries most recognizable faces. It’s really fascinating, especially since Sessler is a man who has been a major player through most of …
