It’s been almost a year since I saw anything really compelling in games retail, so I was surprised to see a cool idea out of… Wal-Mart of all places. I’ve only been inside Wal-Mart a handful of times, having grown up in southeast Michigan and thus buying everything at Meijer for the first 20 years [...]
Posts Tagged ‘board games’
Another Brick in the Wal-Mart
Posted in Marketing, The biz, tagged Batman Arkham Asylum, board games, Pandemic, Playstation 3, Puerto Rico, retail, Settlers of Catan, Wal-Mart, Xbox 360 on September 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Scrabulous is dead. Long live Wordscraper?
Posted in Culture, Indie games, The biz, tagged beer pong, board games, Casual games, Electronic Arts, Facebook, Hasbro, Indie games, PC games, Pong toss, Scrabulous, Wii, Wordscraper on August 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you’ve been keeping an eye on the rapidly expanding world of casual gaming apps delivered over social networks (and who hasn’t?!), last week was an interesting one. At the beginning of the week, the poster child for Facebook as a gaming platform, Scrabulous, was turned off for all North American users. By the end [...]
Settlers of Detroit
Posted in Culture, Nintendo, tagged board games, video games on December 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
