What is there to Talk About Casual Games?
Most of the writing around video games focuses on PC and console gaming: these were the platforms that have been around for decades, which now enjoy devotees in their adult years who have the disposable...
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Appreciating the Game Design of Magic: the Gathering
We moved our home office this past weekend[1], and in the cleanup I came across a binder two decades old with a treasure trove of Magic: the Gathering cards. I got into the classic...
The Many Buttons of GTA5
I’ve been working through the PS4 version of Grand Theft Auto 5 recently. It’s something like the 7th game in the series (after GTA3 added a number of sequels labeled GTA3 but were fully-fledged titles), and at this point the open-city gameplay formula is well-established. Each successive game builds on the framework established...
The Dying Web
The web is dying? Of course it's dying. The author of this opinion piece isn't the first to point out that it seems like mobile apps are taking up a ton...
White Label Gaming
I've been slogging through My NBA 2k15 on my phone. The game is based on collecting cards to battle other players offline, and its core is identical to that of another game, WWE...
Unearthing an Old Programming Document
The internet never forgets. If nothing else, the Wayback Machine does a dutiful job of saving mostly coherent snippets of the web across an impressive breadth of time. I was reminded again a couple weeks...