This weeks’ Escapist is full of interesting content. The theme is “guilty pleasures” – gaming while drunk, whoring it up in MUDs, Superman 64. I’m quoted in Andrew Webster’s article about gaming novels, so read it if only to see me pretend to be an expert. Webster spends a lot of time with author Drew […]
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Print Screen Gift Guide
November 26th, 2008 · Comments Off on Print Screen Gift Guide · Crispy Gamer, Print Screen
Mostly familiar titles, but it’s a starting point.
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Print Screen 10: Rogue Leaders
November 6th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Crispy Gamer, Print Screen
I was lucky enough to get an early look at Rob Smith’s Rogue Leaders, a history of LucasArts. It’s available for pre-order at Amazon and is linked on the scrolling ad to the right. It’s a big book with lots of inside stuff and documents from the Lucas archives. Never before seen concept art, design […]
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September Print Screen
October 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Crispy Gamer, Print Screen
It was a bit of a push, but I did get a Print Screen column up in September. It’s always nice when the author comments on your column and is polite, even if I didn’t really love the book all that much. Three cheers for civility on the internet. In their link to the article, […]
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Game Boys
August 28th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Crispy Gamer, Print Screen
My new Print Screen column is up at CG. This time, I review Game Boys, Michael Kane’s account of professional Counterstrike players. I’ll admit to being a skeptic of pro gaming ever getting big. Kane and his subjects keep making the comparison to Texas Hold ‘Em, a game that wasn’t even the most popular form […]
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Print Screen Number 6 and other books
June 23rd, 2008 · Comments Off on Print Screen Number 6 and other books · Crispy Gamer, Print Screen
So I went ahead and reviewed Dungeons & Desktops anyway. And I didn’t like it very much. The more I read, the clearer it became that Matt Barton wanted to write two different books – an encyclopedia of CRPGs and a business/design history. It is certainly possible to meld the two, but Dr. Barton never […]
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