Editorials

Gabe is already in your home office, but he wants to be in your living room.

Is there such a thing as too many video games?

With the excitement of Next-gen consoles fast approaching, I decided to think back to some of the games this current generation that had blown me away. Here’s the thing, I can’t think of a single game that has genuinely surprised me or made me think “wow, I’ve never seen anything …

The video game industry continues to eclipse the movie biz in terms of sales and monster launches (as opposed to film openings), but just how much of this current success does the video set owe to H-Town?

Black Flag: It’s not just a SoCal punk band anymore.

Aside from the industry patting themselves on the back, do we really need or even care about the BAFTA’s?

I return, this time with news from the front! Planes flying everywhere! Dogfights breaking out in the skies above London, Berlin, and…Toronto? Yeah, it’s a bit of a stretch. But there’s more to the game!

Well here we are again, trying to figure this beast out. In the week since, I’ve solidified some preliminary ideas, setup some very basic rules, and decided how to actually prototype and playtest it.

Making Games is a new column here at BG, one that focuses on exactly how games are made. That’s lucky, seeing as how I’m making numerous games while I finish my post-graduate program in Game Design.

A few reasons to be thankful this year.

What if different developers worked on the same series?

I’m Master Chief and I approve this message.

It’s a serious thing to consider…

Hurricane Sandy gives us “a case of the Mondays.”

  Insert Coins is opening it’s second location in Minneapolis, MN.  I had a chance to check it out a couple days early and wanted to share my thoughts with everyone.

Kids. They grow up so fast!