I’m still processing the news that the board of Crispy Gamer laid off the entire editorial staff – the two editors and the staff writers/video people. I have no real idea what this means for the future of Crispy Gamer enterprises, but I do know that this is a very sad day for me. It’s […]
Entries Tagged as 'Crispy Gamer'
Crispy Gamer Outlooks for 2010
January 15th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Crispy Gamer, RTS
At Crispy Gamer, Tom Chick and I worked together on a couple of RTS outlooks for the coming year. If you’ve heard our latest podcast, these opinions won’t have anything new. But you do get to see outdated photos of both of us. SupCom 2 C&C 4
Tags:
Solium Infernum Review
December 3rd, 2009 · 3 Comments · Crispy Gamer, Cryptic Comet, Review
While chatting with editor Ryan Kuo about this review, he said that he liked how I worked around the fact I couldn’t describe everything even though he admitted he had no idea what I had left out. That’s one of the big problems with Solium Infernum as a design – there is just so much […]
Tags:
I Work With People Of Questionable Taste
December 2nd, 2009 · 19 Comments · Crispy Gamer
One of the great pleasures of working for Crispy Gamer – and there are many – is how many of colleagues have very different opinions on games and how many of them can express those opinions artfully and eloquently. Then a seven member Game Trust panel – to which I was not invited – narrowly […]
Tags:
Majesty 2 Review
September 15th, 2009 · 8 Comments · Crispy Gamer, Review
Now up at Crispy Gamer. I like Majesty 2, but I can’t really recommend it unequivocally to any audience. There is a difference between frustration because you are still mastering a system and frustration because your puny units keep dying stupid deaths. This game is the latter, and that – with the repetitiveness – is […]
Tags:
Crispy Minute on East India Company
August 12th, 2009 · 11 Comments · Crispy Gamer, Paradox, Review
I had no idea I was rocking like that. Wow. I look kind of crazy. I’ve said before how much I love what Crispy is doing with most of its short videos, and this was a lot of fun to shoot. There’s about 20 minutes on the cutting room floor, because the cameraman, John Teti, […]
Tags: