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    I’m one of the author’s in the 2022 opdc (didn’t win anything, still trying to bear up under the shame…

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    Thank you for this very interesting collection, and for wrestling with the obviously mixed feelings on this anniversary. And thank…

Category: Pop Culture

  • Hollywood’s Bloody Ballet – What Game Design Can Learn From 300

    OrIf We Would Just Kneel – And Why We’d Rather Die For all of the lip service we pay to the notion of convergence, how many of us really understand what it means? Most often in the game industry convergence is used exclusively to refer to the coming together of games and movies. More ideally,…

  • Tears of War

    Probably by now, everyone has seen the new Gears of War trailer. With apologies to the gang at Epic (without whose engine I would still be an unemployed writer), I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve had some doubts about Gears. It’s not that I don’t think Gears will be a top-notch adrenaline-pumping shooter…

  • Glory Days

    Here’s one for David Sirlin: Imagine if those terribly cliche game characters retired to become terribly cliche real people. I was always a huge fan of Dhalsim, even though from what I learned in Becoming the Champion, (reviewed here) he was a pretty bad choice if you actually cared about winning.

  • Understanding Games (by proxy)

    Finally got around to reading Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics, and surprise, surprise – it’s no surprise why so many people in the game industry talk about this book. I was a pretty big comic book geek in my youth, but the eighties and the nineties were a long, dark time for popular commercial comics, and…

  • A psychopath, a fascist, a rapist and God walk into a bar…

    Last week some of us were chatting at work and Alan Moore’s Watchmen came up in conversation. I realized then that although I had read it several times, I had never owned my own copy. Five years ago, while packing my stuff to move from Vancouver to Montreal, I realized that the copy on my…

  • always be a good boy, don’t ever play with guns

    Rented Walk the Line last night, and thought it was pretty good though not great. The bad part comes from the fact that it’s a biopic and it struggles with the inherent problems of that format. Plot and rising action don’t tend to neatly map to any life, and in biopics, these things tend to…