As Wikipedia handily notes, regarding the Horsemen mentioned in the title, “in most accounts, the four [Horsemen Of The Apocalypse] are seen as symbolizing Conquest, War, Famine & Death”. And none of these things are particularly nice, to be honest. (The only Death I’m a fan of is the one in Bill & Ted’s Bogus …
[This was originally sent to 100 or so subscribers to my TinyLetter email newsletter, but thought it might be interesting to the Internet at large, so am reposting here.] Having finished up the behemoth that was GDC 2015 since the last newsletter (GDC Vault recordings coming this week, with LOTS of free talks, folks!), I …
[Picture of Iam8bit’s ‘You’ve Got Game Show!’ from GDC 2014 – here’s the full gallery of curated spaces from last year.] As you folks may have spotted, there’s just a week to go ’til we hit Game Developers Conference 2015 – and there’ll likely be 25,000+ game developers converging on the Moscone Center to check …
Something I’ve been thinking about a lot recently – oddly, since I don’t play it – is World Of Warcraft. Blizzard’s 10-year-old MMO behemoth has outlasted pretty much every expensively funded competitor, at least in the ‘pay a monthly subscription’ category. (Although I’ve heard reports that some of its ‘failed’ rivals in a galaxy far …
‘Share Of Voice’ – the most underdiscussed stat in video games? Read More »
[We’re going to be doing 3 or 4 Video Game StoryBundles in 2015, but this first one is a real doozy, including Darius Kazemi on Jagged Alliance, Leigh Alexander’s Clipping Through, a digital debut for the amazing Super I Am 8-Bit art book, and an exclusive ‘first time ever available’ debut for the hilarious full-length …
Video Game StoryBundle V – new eBook goodness for 2015! Read More »
[This is excerpted from the fifth issue of my new TinyLetter email newsletter, dealing with ‘musings on games, tech and life’ – go ahead and sign up if you dig it!] As I noted on Twitter, one of my most beloved Christmas presents this year is Stewart Lee’s book ‘How I Escaped My Certain Fate: …
Video Games & Stand-Up Comedy – Subversion In Common? Read More »
[This is excerpted from the fourth issue of my new TinyLetter email newsletter, dealing with ‘musings on games, tech and life’ – go ahead and sign up if you dig it!] Since my colleagues at Gamasutra will be rolling out their personal Top 5s for ‘video games wot they played in 2014’ over the next …
[This is excerpted from the third issue of my new TinyLetter email newsletter, dealing with ‘musings on games, tech and life’ – go ahead and sign up if you dig it!] There’s one blog post I’ve been meaning to write for a while now (talking of ‘regular newsletter forcing me to write things!) It’s about …
Game Info Discoverability – Top 5 Lessons From ‘Games We Care About’ Read More »
Every few months, I get an urge to try something new as a side project, related to a problem. This time – though I make no claims it will FIX EVERYTHING – it’s intended to address this simple issue: “I like playing video games, but there are so many damn video games nowadays. How do …
Why game discovery is vital – introducing Games We Care About. Read More »
Back in May 2013, I teamed up with Jason Chen at Storybundle to curate the first Video Game Storybundle – a veritable cornucopia of great DRM-free video game eBooks, from Ralph Baer to Jordan Mechner and beyond – and it was a success. Last November we did it again, with Video Game Storybundle 2.0 – …
