Here are 10 games I played in 2011. Like this blurb, each is fewer than 140 characters. Honestly, who has the patience for a detailed list? Minecraft: An endlessly amusing world of possibility and a brilliant example of emergent storytelling. VVVVVV: The most thorough exploration of a single mechanic presented with charming design and masterfully [...]
Here’s something I wrote last week for a magazine project I’m currently spearheading. There’ll hopefully be more on this later as it seems to have stalled temporarily, but I’m posting it now because a) I haven’t done anything else noteworthy, and b) I should probably bury the academic diatribe that was my most recent posting. [...]
A brief retrospective of 2010 in video games It’s never a good sign for any form of media when, although you might have enjoyed the immediate experience, it fades entirely from memory after a scant few hours. That happened a lot in 2010. I’d watch a movie, and forget most of what I saw before [...]
