No, no, this isn’t a rant about journalists, I’m sorry to disappoint. Really, it shouldn’t be considering it is where I “got my start” so to speak. In fact, the very first thing I ever did related to the game industry was to work as a site manager for the WarCry Network when [...]
Shortly before midnight yesterday I stumbled back into my apartment after taking a flight from San Fransisco back to Austin. I was in California, of course, for the Game Developers Conference, one of the largest events in the world for the game industry. It wasn’t my first time at GDC since I had attended [...]
Sometimes I really do wonder if I could ever find an MMO that would truly please me, that would really capture my ideal, and would engross me for years on end. I’ve played an awful lot of MMOs out there, partly because none of them have ever really captured me like that, even though I [...]
Back in 2007, there was an awful lot of talk about how Free-to-Play games with microtransactions were not just interesting, but also a very viable direction to take. At the time, I did not disagree with this, and I haven’t been surprised to see more and more games coming out using this model. However, [...]
