This year is shaping up to be a fantastic time for Nintendo. The Wii continues to sell incredibly and the 2008 release list looks great. Titles of note set for 2008 include BomberMan Land, Go Diego Go! Safari Run, LEGO: Indiana Jones and the ‘I will sell my car for this game, if I have to’ Mario […]
The morning kicked off with a remarkably inspiring keynote from David Perry, a consultant in the industry with a career spanning 25 years. Perry began with a brief history of his career and I was more than happy to see screenshots from his ZX-81 games and some shots of games he worked on at Mikro-Gen […]
Apparently, World of Warcraft is an evil and corrupt game, game developers make better parents and those are just some of the topics covered at the Montreal Game Summit 2007 (MIGS 07).
We arrived at the Palais Des Congres in Montreal, at around 8am. The inside of the building reminded me of Dawn of the Dead without the […]
There seems to be a trend of gaming celebrities complaining about the state of AAA games and the quality of available titles. The solutions being offered are usually along the lines of either ‘whatever is in my latest book’ or ‘whatever I’m selling’. It’s nothing new, but notably laughable all the same.
All industries have, or have had, […]
I grew up in a town called New Brighton, which sits on the river Mersey looking out towards Liverpool. During the 19th century, it was a huge tourist destination. Along with the world-famous Mersey Ferry, this little town had some of the most desirable attractions in England.
The New Brighton Tower, built in 1896, stood 621 […]
It’s always interesting to me how loosely everyone defines various terms that are “standard” in the industry. One of the most commonly used (and abused) terms is advergames, and it’s simply amazing how many people think in-game ads are the same thing as an advergame.
While they both serve the same basic purpose, they go about […]
This week was the Seattle Casual Connect conference (the conference formerly known as Casuality). Talking to organizers there was around 1300 attendees this year, up from around 900 last year. What that really meant for me was that there were a lot of new faces, and many of those were people that are new to […]
I’m running for the IGDA Board of Directors this year. I’ve always been really involved with the organization having helped coordinate both the Colorado and Ottawa chapters while I lived there, as well as being a chair of the Online and Casual Games SIGs.
My goal if elected is to help ensure the IGDA retains its […]
I’ll be speaking next month at OGDC 2007. My session is titled Appealing to the MMOB and should give a good overview of what it takes to build large-scale branded games. I plan to discuss some of the challenges in working in this space, as well as how rewarding it can be when done right. […]
Apologies for the relative quiet over the past week or so - we’ve been hard at work building our brand new site (which is looking pretty awesome, incidentally… more on that later.)
In the meantime, Canadian readers might be interested in a CBC documentary on tonight at 8:00 called GAMER REVOLUTION.
GAMER REVOLUTION explores how computer […]
