When I read the first couple of paragraphs of the “Mythical 40-hour gamer” article, my initial response was “LOLZ GO PLAY BEJEWELED, N00B!!!11!!”. Then I read the rest of the article, and mulled over it more, and realized that, while I’ve really enjoyed spending an entire year playing Disgaea off and on, I can understand […]

As you probably already know, yesterday morning Nintendo held a press conference where they revealed the price and release date of the Wii ($250 and November 19th). The price and release date were the big news, but a few news outlets also mentioned something called “channels” that would let users do things like browse the […]

…I have to say that I’m fiendishly pleased that he’s decided to make his new game, Aquaria, shareware rather than freeware. As someone who hopes to one day make a living off of my own independently developed games, there is no greater bane to my unholy existence than really good, completely free games like Within […]

There’s something that’s been bugging me for a long time, but it wasn’t until Derek Yu posted about a shining example on TIGSource that my thoughts on the matter really coalesced. The article talks about a group who spent 3 years making a Halo mod for Command and Conquer, and had to recently stop working […]