Maggie Greene's posts

A simple and scaled-down strategy game (it was an entrant in the 'Java4K competition,' where entries could not…

We've been a little nostalgic the past couple of weekends, which included a look back at Sierra's origins; now…

Gamasutra has a nice five page interview up with David DeMartini of EA Partners, the Electronic Arts division that…

Epicenter Studios (Critter Round-Up, Real Heroes: Firefighter) cofounder Bryan Jury sent us a heads up about an…

After his recent chat with game pirates, independent developer Cliff Harris of Positech Games muses on pricing…

Ian Bogost has a short little note on a 'serious game' called Packaging Man, which was apparently intended 'to…

Emily Short has an interesting response up to some comments made by Playfirst's John Welch in a recent Gamasutra…

Talk of how we review games has been swirling about for quite some time now. Many people have commented on the lack…

Poor Shanda. Poor Chinese game companies! A surprising number of suits have been brought against them in the past…

Have time to waste on this lovely August Saturday? If you do, there's an appallingly expansive look at the history…

Compared to a lot of esoteric ruminations on game design, Ernest Adams' little essay on 'the dao of game design' is…

In the last Japanese history seminar of my first year of graduate school, we shifted gears from the economic and…

With the discussion generated by 'what I learned by not playing Civilization,', I thought L.B. Jeffries' thoughts…

The issue of created languages is hardy new (cf Esperanto), but I've not seen a lengthy discussion of created…

I find security issues facing games pretty interesting; PlayNoEvil is one of my favorite spots for discussion about…

Ian Bogost sent along this link to his latest little title, this one called Honorarium: "An autobiographical art…

We've mentioned Soul Bubbles a few times, most recently in regards to the expert bias inherent in game reviews.…

There are plenty of fields where the academic-'real world' divide is pretty sharp — and it's probably no surprise…

Michael Abbott of the Brainy Gamer has a great piece up on the straw man of the 'quality of narrative' debate…

From Chris Basmajian comes a darling, piggieful little game called Attention Hog. As the titular attention hog,…