A little over a year ago I said good-bye to Computer Games Magazine. I refused then to accept the lesson of the closing to be that print was dead or unviable.
So, this really sucks.
Computer Gaming World is the oldest established electronic gaming magazine, and despite the renaming, Games for Windows was an extension of that […]

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CGW/GfW’s Tom verus Bruce has probably done as much to amuse me as any single game has, and is, in many ways, a pioneering form of “New Games Journalism” though both men would probably slap me for calling it that. The idea is simple - two guys play a game against or with each other […]

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The cover story in this month’s Games for Windows is the grand unveiling of Sims 3. Writers Sean Molloy and Jeff Green seem to be very pleased with what they’ve seen, and I’m already wondering how it will run on my numerous machines. Seamless neighborhoods, a community that evolves on its own without human intervention, […]

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Today’s Games for Windows GDC podcast (2/20) has Relic’s Josh Mosqueira and Gas Powered Games’ Chris Taylor as guests. Lots of time is spent on the present and future of real time strategy and PC gaming in general.
The usual ground is covered. Will RTS games push themselves into a hardcore ghetto? How can you get […]

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It looks like this was the week that Maxis showed off Spore to some of the local press. The Games For Windows 2/13 podcast discusses the game near the beginning, immediately after one of their typical shaggy dog stories.

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The new Games for Windows magazine has a long cover story about Demigod, the new I’m-not-quite-sure-what-it-is from Gas Powered Games. Lots of screenshots.
The key other story is the long feature on games that were delayed or canceled. In Jeff Green’s wrap-up of the problem ridden Rise and Fall: Civilizations at War, he mentions that Stainless […]

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Features
Feeding the Juggernaut (November 2007)
Contributions
Empires in Arms (part of feature on delayed games) (February 2008)

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This month’s Games for Windows has an interesting feature story on the use of Native Americans as protagonists in Age of Empires III: Warchiefs and Prey. Michael Sheyahshe does a good job of getting the viewpoints of the developers on the use of Native American perspectives and voices. Let’s face it, this is the kind […]

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It looks like Vic Davis’s labor of love is getting a little more publicity. This month’s Games for Windows magazine has Tom and Bruce playing Armageddon Empires (each on their own, but comparing progress) and Bruce devotes his still-too-short column to the game.
Of course, if you don’t know anything about the game, the account in […]

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A few months ago I wrote a piece on games journalism for The Escapist. Not a bad little article, though it didn’t turn out as well as I would have liked. In it, I had a throwaway line about how the success of The Sims is still a story but no one seems to be […]

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