Neverwinter Nights developer shuts If that headline popped up in your news reader, you could be a little confused since you would have heard the wailing of a million voices if Bioware disappeared. After all, almost no one remembers or thinks about the 1980s Neverwinter Nights game (a proto-MMO) that the now closed Stormfront co-developed […]
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GDC Inviting Press in the Future
February 27th, 2008 · 5 Comments · GDC, Me, Media
Kotaku is reporting that future editions of DICE and GDC will be going invite only with press registration. Concerned about the growing size of the conference and the vanishing developer culture of the annual event, Jamil Moledina thinks that something has to be done to get GDC back under control. “It’s meant to be a […]
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Jason Ocampo Abandons Ship
February 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Media
Jason Ocampo has been Gamespot’s in house strategy go-to guy for years. Though I don’t always agree with him, he’s an intelligent commentator and his opinion is always worthy of consideration. Little too mass market in his tastes, but you know, we need people like that on sites like Gamespot. I’ve had the pleasure of […]
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Crispy Gamer is Live
February 1st, 2008 · 9 Comments · Crispy Gamer, Media
I’m thrilled to announce that Crispy Gamer is now live and online. My first two contributions are a review of Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance and a review of Geometry Wars: Galaxies. There are still some bugs to work out, as people try their best to break the content management system, but I hope you’ll be […]
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Moments in Games Journalism
December 31st, 2007 · 4 Comments · Media
From Jack DeVries’s IGN review of Panzer Tactics: The German’s Axis Campaign is the easy mode, the Soviet Campaign is moderate, and the Western Allied Campaign is difficult. It’s an interesting choice to make the easy mode, and the tutorial, star the Nazis. What’s also interesting is that the developer did not opt for a […]
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Management Failure at Gamespot?
December 5th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Media
A wise man once said to never assume malice where incompetence is a sufficient explanation. That may be the deal at Gamespot regarding the termination of their editorial director, Jeff Gerstmann. Though many people are pointing to the threatened “mass resignations” in this Kotaku article that cites yet another anonymous source, for me the big […]
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