I haven’t participated in one of Corvus Elrod’s round tables in a long time, so I haven’t linked to many of them. I’m pretty self-absorbed. I didn’t contribute this month, either, but since the topic is one dear to my heart, please check out the wide range of posts about translating books into games. Everything […]
Entries from January 21st, 2009
January Round Table
January 21st, 2009 · Comments Off on January Round Table · Blogs, Round Table
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Pox Nora Acquired by Sony
January 19th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Industry
This is great news for the Pox Nora team. How will Sony use this new property? Tycho sees a future for Sony’s CCGs at Playstation Home.
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Dealing with “The Hitler Problem”
January 19th, 2009 · 21 Comments · Design, History
A writer with the name “Poisoned Sponge” has written a long post dealing with a question that I have tackled before many times. Taking the Total War games as his starting point, the writer asks about how far game designers can deal with the moral horrors of the 20th century. Creative Assembly is making an […]
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Top 20 PC Sellers of 2008
January 15th, 2009 · 13 Comments · Industry
Strategy-esque games in bold. 1. World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Expansion Pack 2. Spore 3. World of Warcraft: Battle Chest 4. Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures 5. Warhammer Online: Age Of Reckoning 6. Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 7. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe 8. World Of Warcraft: Wrath of the […]
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Dragon Age Gets Novelized
January 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment · RPGs
In another sign that the publishing business can’t be too hard up, Dragon Age designer and writer Dave Gaider will see his prequel novel for the universe published by Tor Books. The first chapter of Dragon Age: The Stolen Throne is available for download. I’m waiting for the final version, myself. I’d hate to spoil […]
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Cats: The Game
January 13th, 2009 · 16 Comments · Design, Industry, Music
I love Broadway musicals. And I still think this is the stupidest thing I’ve heard all month. But today the word has come out that Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s Really Useful Group, the company responsible for handling Webber’s various projects, is currently in talks with multiple video game publishers with the goal of bringing Webber’s musicals into […]
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