Maggie Greene's posts

Michigan State University is hosting an interdisciplinary conference from October 9-11 called Meaningful Play,…

While I have enough work to kill an ox this weekend, I took some time last night to play with this delightfully…

Sometimes, success is partially a matter of being in the right place at the right time — and sometimes, no matter…

My summer will be filled with exactly the same things my school year is (herding students along to enlightenment,…

The book Grand Theft Childhood got a good bit of attention upon its release, and the authors are back discussing…

Wild Tangent's CEO, Alex St. John, made some 'brazen' claims at the ION keynote — one of the boldest being that…

We mentioned Michael Abbot (of the Brainy Gamer) and his efforts to put together a great syllabus for his history of…

Plagiarism is one of those serious issues that has laid low a number of people who 'should know better'; over at…

For those that lament the plethora of crappy MMOs and poorly-planned 'virtual worlds' of various stripes — fear…

I don't have time to waste this weekend, sadly, but if you do, there's a challenging little puzzler called Putty…

Ok, so virtual property disputes aren't exactly new, but there's a little wrap up on some of the current issues over…

If you're going to be in San Diego and free next Wednesday afternoon, UCSD is hosting a public portion of their…

We meditated on the question of difficulty in games last weekend, and Ernest Adams is now over at Gamasutra mulling…

Looking for new reading material? A new book is out examining WoW, and is available from Amazon for the nice price…

Rock, Paper, Shotgun linked to this nice retrospective of Roman-themed games over the years, starting with Legionnai…

Finally getting to grad school was — in some ways — a rude awakening for me; I still haven't mastered the art of…

Kieron Gillen has a nice meditation on difficulty and games over at the Escapist: where do you find it these days?…

Steve at PlayNoEvil noted this little news story, which involves two Chinese gold farmers who have pulled in over…

flOw is one of those interesting little games that keeps on kicking (it's certainly made the rounds at this point)…

I'm really fascinated by the success of MMOs aimed at kids — both in terms of their current (and potential) earning…