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Reflecting on a life of interactive media on a milestone birthday. Well folks, I’ve been subjected to a terrifying inevitability: I turn 30 this month. As I mull over the existential dread of aging, I decided to have some more fun talking about games and how they’ve impacted my life. I looked over my extensive…
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Playing some cerebral horror games, heading towards the end of the year, and a some more industry screw-ups. Well I just finished yet another personal creative project that is now making its rounds through publication editors, which means its time for another blog post. As I said before, if none of my work gets picked…
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Shifting Creative Gears, Finishing Projects, and What’s Good in HyperMedia Land Alright, so It’s been a couple months since I was here last, where I was talking about Xbox being really weird and a bunch of unnecessary layoffs happening in the games industry (things have not improved). Since then though, I decided to get back…
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Studio closures, poor console sales, and grim insider updates spell rough seas ahead for Microsoft’s gaming division A couple months ago I wrote about the depressing state of the AAA games industry, and the swaths of layoffs that have been plaguing the talent behind the titles for the last 18 months. We talked about development…
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Going back to some old favorites, finishing a long journey, and the best multiplayer in a decade. April has been a bit of a slower month in terms of big releases in several mediums. Films have a bit slower, with smaller budget darlings like Civil War and Monkey Man padding out the schedule before the…
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How gaming’s most iconic racing franchise grew alongside real car enthusiasts. In 1994, Pioneer Productions – later known as EA Games Canada – collaborated with automotive magazine Road & Track to create a little racing game called The Need for Speed. The idea, as with most video games at the time, was to put the…
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The Games, Reads, and Flicks of the Month March is finally over. Spring has sprung, the weather is warming up, and the full post-holiday art release cycle is well underway. While the games industry has been in full-swing thanks to releases like Dragon’s Dogma 2 and Persona 3 Reload, film has only just really started…
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Andrzej Sapkowski’s acclaimed fantasy series The Witcher is a strange duck within the genre. Rather than spend time building up to epic battles and hunting for all-powerful MacGuffins, Sapkowski instead focuses primarily on thematic philosophy and charm. Across eight books (two of which are short story collections), a trilogy of acclaimed role playing video games…









