As you can probably imagine, I played plenty of videogames growing up. Luckily, my family not only tolerated the hobby, but even got into gaming a little bit over the years. Mom still plays a mean game of Tetris, and my sister was the first person I knew to beat Super Mario Brothers 2. With [...]
Archive for December, 2007
Settlers of Detroit
Posted in Culture, Nintendo, tagged board games, video games on December 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
‘Tis the Season
Posted in Culture, tagged Child's Play Charity on December 11, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Liquid Architecture is for the children – just like Wu Tang! But seriously, Joel Johnson is hosting his third annual fundraiser (or Funde Razor) to benefit a charity that’s very near and dear to my heart, Child’s Play. It all goes down on Wednesday, December 12 at Barcade – Brooklyn’s favorite retro arcade/dive bar. Yours [...]
Air Supply
Posted in Culture, Marketing, Nintendo, The biz on December 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Mainstream coverage of the games industry has been a mixed bag for decades. It’s often harmless – a reviewer gets in over his head, or a stat gets misquoted. Sometimes, it’s much more serious, and some desperate reporter drops in a Jack Thompson quote or throws around some baseless claim about violence in games that [...]
The greatest show on earth?
Posted in Culture, Marketing, The biz, tagged conventions, video games on December 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Escapist, essential reading every week, posted a great article on this week on the state of game industry conventions, post-E3. As an E3 veteran, I can see why the ESA pulled the plug on the show. Those cavernous booths that EA, Microsoft and Sony put together year after year had to be crazy expensive [...]
