Video Games Live has been on the nerd concert scene since 2005 and I’d never had any great desire to go. First, the idea struck me as a little like those K-Tel “Best of the Classics Compilations” where you can get your Bach smashed up against your Chopin, music chosen for no better reason than […]

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I know this is yet another non-strategy game post, and yeah, that sucks. I have a half dozen really big posts drafted that I don’t want to release into the wild quite yet – something on modeling crisis situations, the Indian character post, reflections on authorial voice in strategy game narrative…these are hard to finish […]

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When you write a long form feature story, you get a lot of stuff you never use. Good stuff, too. Things that are interesting but don’t work in the way you want the article to go, or that you don’t have room for or that are taking the questions well beyond the point where you […]

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