Other People’s Stories was one of the easiest articles I’ve ever written. As EA’s Jonathan Knight says of Dante’s Inferno, the ideas are so big. It’s impossible not to find an angle or know what questions to ask. Not everyone I asked for input replied to my queries, and that ended up being OK since [...]
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Order of War review fact check
September 26th, 2009 · 18 Comments · Media, WW2
From IGN’s Mark Birnbaum:
While not totally unprecedented in gaming, it is quite rare to find a WW2 game that offers a German campaign to players. While apparently not taboo to allow gamers to light up American troops with an MG-42 in Return to Castle Wolfenstein’s multiplayer, it’s not as common to have full-fledged campaigns detailing [...]
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You Have to Be Kidding Me
July 20th, 2009 · 9 Comments · Media
Sometimes you just want to give up on games journalism.
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Sid’s Rules
May 2nd, 2009 · 7 Comments · Blogs, Crispy Gamer, Design, Media
Sid Meier is one of the most interesting people I’ve ever met. Even when he’s talking about other people’s games and how much fun he is having, I get the sense that he is appreciating them on more levels than I can imagine.
Soren Johnson, his former colleague at Firaxis, has just posted “Sid’s Rules”, another [...]
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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 can write [...]
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GDC is not about announcements
April 2nd, 2009 · 2 Comments · GDC, Media
I wish I had written this.
It’s not just GDC that is so afflicted, either. Just as media outlets are astonished and angered each year by the lack of non-development announcements at a development conference, they also build the same pointless expectation over shows like Game Convention (realistically, too close to Christmas for any major slew [...]
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