Stephen Totilo is reporting that game god Will Wright is leaving EA to focus on his other hobbies. Will Wright, famous designer of “Sim City,” “The Sims,” and “Spore” is leaving Electronic Arts, his publisher announced today. Wright will be running the Stupid Fun Club, an organization he started in 2001 with EA and had […]
Entries from April 8th, 2009
Will Wright Leaves EA, retires from AAA game design?
April 8th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Electronic Arts, Maxis
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Three Moves Ahead Episode 7 – Collectible Card Games
April 7th, 2009 · 21 Comments · Design, Podcast, Three Moves Ahead
The full panel is on hand this week and Troy is way out of his element as they talk about Collectible Card Games as strategy games, starting with Battleforge and moving through Star Chamber, Culdcept Saga and Magic. Should Bruce by a PSP? Who uses the phrase “synergy of modalities of gameplay”? Why does Julian […]
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Baseball Game Comparison
April 7th, 2009 · Comments Off on Baseball Game Comparison · Baseball, Crispy Gamer
One of the reasons that Bill Abner remains the dean of sports video game journalism is that he insists on running lots of simulations to see how the stats work out. He did this to great effect last year with some football sims. He chose to do a smaller sample sim for Crispy Gamer to […]
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Swag Kits A Plot to Imprison Media?
April 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Industry, Media
I’m too low on the totem pole to get swag kits in the mail. But it looks like EA is sending out very posh swag for press tapped to cover Godfather II. The packages include brass knuckles. A friend suggested that this is a nefarious plot to get all the games media arrested before they […]
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Warning to Casino Spammers
April 3rd, 2009 · 5 Comments · Uncategorized
For the last couple of weeks I’ve been getting brief comments – on topic – from people who use their username or URL field to advertise casinos. I reserve the right to edit your name and URL. If you want to advertise, contact me. Don’t do it in my comments section.
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Merchant Prince and Machiavelli (1993/1995)
April 3rd, 2009 · 9 Comments · Feature:Map
What this is about. Quantum Quality Productions (QQP) is one of the great also-rans in game publishing history. They did a lot of light wargame stuff like The Perfect General, The Lost Admiral, The Pure Wargame. All were decent games, if not brilliant. QQP had one shining title, Merchant Prince, and even it got stolen […]
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