Tagged: gaming
Nightly Open Thread
Eight myths about video games…debunked here. And are consoles limiting the potential and future sales performance of high-end PC graphics cards? Discuss…or discuss something else.
Richard Garriott: "I don't think we've yet mastered the techniques of true interactive storytelling."
And I suppose he’d be the man to know: Do watch the whole thing; it’s a really interesting look at story-telling in gameplay, and it hits most of the correct points in that discussion.
"The most important…decision that the video game industry has…faced."
That’s what Jennifer Mercurio, Entertainment Consumers Association vice president and general counsel, is terming the looming Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association Supreme Court decision, for which oral arguments are being presented tomorrow....
ExtraLife: Play Games. Heal Kids.
One of the game devs I follow on Twitter, GameDevFTW, is participating in ExtraLife, a fundraising initiative for the Children’s Miracle Network in which gamers take pledges and raise funds to sponsor a 24-hour...
Open Question: What sort of education do you need to get into game programming?
Kevin Fishburne sent me a link to this “Ask Slashdot” installment, in which a user poses that very question. The discussion that results is pretty informative; definitely worth a read. It covers a number...
Do games cost less these days?
Well, yes, in a manner of speaking. The sticker price might well be the same: you’re still paying $40 to $70 per game, depending on various factors (and obviously, we’re discounting “special editions” from...
Found Image: Papa British on Skylab
That would be NASA astronaut Owen Garriott, father of Ultima creator (and private astronaut himself) Richard Garriott (known to us all as, of course, Lord British). Here he is posing by a console aboard...
Paul Barnett: "Why games are important"
One more interesting thing from Paul Barnett’s Twitter feed for today. Here, he draws attention to a video he did for AbleGamers, a gaming news & reviews blog with a focus on disabled persons...
Opposing California's "violent video games" law
Also known as AB 1179, California’s “violent games law” was passed back in 2005. In short, the bill stipulated that “all violent games be required to have a large ’18’ sticker placed on [the]...
Quoth Warren Spector: "I think that this is kind of a Golden Age…"
That Warren Spector…he just seems to be all over the gaming newsfeeds these days. Not that this is really a surprising trend; with Epic Mickey garnering as much attention as it has been, the...
