Video games: news, theory & analysis.
Video games: news, theory & analysis.
In the ongoing investigation of how games communicate, I ran across Rex Martin's dissertation. Wowsers. That guy is brilliant. — read on
Well, it seems the cat is out of the bag. Officially it'll be announced at GDC'08, but I suppose Dean Takahashi couldn't wait. — read on
After the exciting release of the report that I wrote with DFC Intelligence on the game activities of big media companies, Business Week is running a story this week that seems informed by my writing. — read on
I quit. The past several months I haven't even once thought about playing. It was only when I kept noticing these recurrent charges on my credit card that I felt it was time. Thank you, Blizzard, but no thanks. — read on
Today I got word that Computer Games as a Sociocultural Phenomenon is available. Woo hoo. You'll find me right in the front of the book, in between the Introduction and Ian Bogost. Not a bad place to be. — read on
Obviously, if you're going to describe reality with numbers then you inevitably make some assumptions. One such an assumption would be that no one will have more than 2^31 gold. Or, more precisely, "214,748 gold, 36 silver, 48 copper." — read on
After my previous post, detailing numbers that seem to tell some analysts that M$ is "blowing away" the competition but really don't, here's more ammo. Despite the happy times for Xbox in the U.S., the console just isn't doing much in Japan. — read on
Unsurprisingly several months of a massive PR assault from Microsoft is followed by a spike in sales. Halo 3 racked up 3.3 million units since launch, which is not bad, but then again also not that out of the ordinary for a blockbuster title. Nonetheless, the hand that feeds will not be bitten, and analysts use magical math to make it seem as if Xbox 360 is some revolutionary occurrence in the history of the video game industry. Count with me. — read on
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Half of the work in getting a Ph.D is purely logistical. This is my attempt to create a degree of coherence in the influx of game-related news, data, tidbits, announcements, CFPs, book reviews, commentary and nonsense that finds its way onto my screen every day.