Memorial Day is your typical American holiday. Though officially devoted to honor the sacrifices made by those citizens who have died in battle, it is mostly devoted to barbecues and beer drinking. It is the unofficial start of summer. In a twisted game-framed idea, this is a lot like strategy and war games. Even though […]

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I wasn’t at E3 this year so I learned about what was going on the same way that most of you did. I read the major gaming news sites, kept an eye on my favorite forums and kept checking Gametab for anything new. E3 has become such a huge press event that it puts the […]

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Rome: Total War is one of the biggest strategy hits in the last five years. Every serious PC gamer I know has played it and, aside from the usual hardcore constituency who play a game for 50 hours straight and wonder why it starts to get easier, the praise is near universal. It has spawned […]

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If you haven’t seen Will Wright’s GDC talk about Spore and content, do it now. (registration required). It’s an hour long, but well worth it. Watch it to the end. Then come back. Done? The highlight, of course, is the demo of Spore and it does not disappoint. I haven’t seen any game so original […]

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The Carnival of Gamers is on at Tony Rice’s Buttonmashing. A bunch of gaming blogs have gotten together to show what we have out there. I read two or three blogs daily, plus a few more a couple of times a week. Sample the menu over there and fill your belly with some interesting perspectives […]

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Womengamers.com recently posted an article by Fizgig (pseudonym, of course) about being afraid to reveal to your hobby to you colleagues and friends. “Why don’t I tell people at the university where I work that I play videogames?” Fizgig wrote. A university teacher, she would hide her hobby. (At last week’s E3, ESA chief Doug […]

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