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Reporter Clive Thompson recently chatted with "babygurl01475", an Instant Messenger persona developed by someone out there to get people like Thompson horny enough to part with his credit card number. Because Clive is supposed to think that babygurl01475 is a real person who wants him badly. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5804774&view=rss&microfeed=true Game Addict's Luke Stapley was kind enough to include me in an interesting round-table he did recently for a pod cast on the the "last generation of gaming." More »
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Last year, Wired News kicked off the sexiest geeks of the year list with such hotties as Tiny Nibbles Violet Blue and Gawker founder Nick Denton. But there wasn't a damn gamer among them. More »
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Over at Wired News, there's a pretty accurate encapsulation of all the forum whinging that has gone on over the past few years about save games, specifically within the context of Dead Rising's draconian and merciless save system. More »
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I was lucky enough to get a chance to sit down with some of the Rockstar guys last month in their SoHo offices and look at and talk about Bully for a package of stories I was working on for the Rocky Mountain News. More »
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Ah, nothing like a bile-clearning rant to kick-start a Monday. Clive Thompson's latest column is all about the pure, simple, violent pleasures of running-and-gunning first-person shooters. Screw plot, screw game mechanics, screw intricacies, screw complexity, sometimes all you really need is to deliver an up-close-and-personal gut shot to a friend with a sawed off. More »
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Clive Thompson follows up his article about the end of days at Asheron's Call with a quick post showing an image of the last moments and some painfully geeky lost quotes from gamers. More »
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Clive Thompson tracked down a very interesting use of machinima that he posted about over on Collision Detection. The French Democracy is a short about the riots in France that uses the dramatized lives of three black French citizens who follow different paths but all end up rioting. Thompson points to this piece as a bit of thinking Machinima, a genre seldom seen in the burgeoning art form. More »
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