Videogame Theorist, Game Developer and Interdisciplinary Nerd
Videogame Theorist, Game Developer and Interdisciplinary Nerd
Last week, during Nintendo’s Financial Results Briefing, company president Satoru Iwata was asked about how Nintendo planned to monetize their upcoming ventures into mobile games, specifically if they were planning on analyzing existing games as they designed their own. Iwata…
Last week, Valve made the shocking (though not altogether unanticipated) move toward allowing modders to sell mods through Steam Workshop. This experiment lasted less than a week before it was abandoned in the face of widespread criticism and general discontent…
Over the last few months, an increasing number of people have started to ask my opinion (or let me know all about theirs) regarding the boundaries of videogames as a medium. More often than not, this means affirming someone’s statement…
Earlier this week, Mike Rose posted an excellent article on Gamasutra about the ethics of free-to-play game design. Despite similarities in name, free-to-play games are not the same as freeware games. While the latter are games that are actually given…
As the Internet is well aware, Duke Nukem Forever was finally released one week ago after fourteen years of troubled development. In less than a year, the game has gone from long-time Internet joke to over-the-top hype machine to unmitigated…