The Feedback Loop of Rhythm Games
About 15 years ago, giant boxes of peripherals stacked the shelves of gaming retail stores, filled with plastic guitars and copies of the then-experimental Guitar Hero games. At the time, the genre was fresh and...
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Games as a Service
When the Bay Area shelter-in-place order started, there was plenty of online snark about the triviality of the policy: the oncoming pandemic threatened to reshape the world as disruptively as a global war or a...
Games are Getting Cheap Faster
Console and PC video game releases and launch dates roughly follow annual retail sales patterns: they start the year at a brisk pace, slow down in the summer months, and then surge for the fall...
Evolving Game Storytelling
I just finished the excellent semi-rebooted God of War on the PlayStation 4. The series started out on the PlayStation 2, and tells a classic Greek tragedy where the protagonist, Kratos, is tricked by the...
Evolving Real-Time Strategy Gaming with DotA Underlords
Mods are unique to PC gaming. Unlike their mobile and console counterparts, the open nature of the PC allows for amateur game designers and programmers to take an existing game engine—sometimes along with the...
The Employee-Founder Disconnect
Another month, another job posting ripe for internet ridicule. In this case, it's a job listing from the creator of Stardew Valley, looking for an administrative assistant to help him with a number...