Virtually Collectable Card Bits
The story goes, I was tired and slightly bored during a recent business trip, and ended up downloading Blizzard's free card game Hearthstone from my hotel room. A few hundred games later, I...
Games
Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation
Those of us who grew up with video games in the 90s fondly remember the "console wars" of that era. There was Nintendo, with its iconic Super Nintendo system, filled to the brim...
When Clicking is Pleasurable and Addictive
Click. Click click. Click click click click click click click click click click click click. One of our company mailing lists brought attention to Particle Clicker, a game that, as the title suggests, is about...
The Indie Game Bubble
I've been meaning to write down my thoughts about the state of gaming and where we'll go as an industry for the next few years. As we're in the...
The Troublesome Portrayal of Women in Video Games
Video games are notorious for catering to teenage boys. Puzzlingly, it's an increasingly outdated focus, persisting mostly in the creative direction and subsequent marketing of games reflected in big-budget titles more than in general-appeal casual games. The recent controversy over Assassin Creed's exclusion of female avatars is just the latest of...
Games as a Service
MMORPGs introduced the concept of games as a service almost two decades ago. It was and remains a straight-forward idea: pay $x/month, and we'll run the servers that enable the online game to function as well as put some programmers and artists and designers to keep the game fresh by updating content...