Note: While looking for something I found this unpublished blog of mine from July 5th, 2011. While some of it is dated and the question at the end seems silly in the day of DOTA and LoL, some of ...
Well, as a rule I am trying not to comment on the works of other people. But one thing I can tell you is that I really appreciate the variety of different videogames that are being made by so man...
http://vgbm.blogspot.com/2010/04/well-as-rule-i-am-trying-not-to-comment.html
It's a common phrase, and increasingly it's one I think applies to the Game Industry as I note how relatively unknown the game industry is among the older generation.Background:I had a neighbor, ...
I'm curious to see how the new Wii Sports does.Well ok, I'm sure it is going to do well, but I don't know if it will be #1 game of the year well or #5 game of the year well.Certainly it is follow...
http://vgbm.blogspot.com/2009/06/wiisports-resort-bounce.html
Finding Neverland is a movie about J. M. Barrie, his life, and his creating of Peter Pan. I always found one of the moments in the movie to be poignant. Frohman, Barrie's producer and financier (...
http://vgbm.blogspot.com/2009/06/finding-neverland-is-movie-about-j.html
I've been unable to post recently, but wrote-up a psuedo-review of the new Indiana Jones Wii game on my other poorly updated of recent blog.http://dustfreewii.blogspot.com/
http://vgbm.blogspot.com/2009/06/indiana-jones-and-staff-of-kings.html
I'm unabashedly a huge fan of the LEGO games. There are absolutely some problems with them, such as re-spawning you on the edge of a platform after you miss a jump, a location where your characte...
http://vgbm.blogspot.com/2009/03/listening-to-wrong-voice.html
Gamesindustry.biz just posted a great interview with Jenova Chen (flOw, Flower).It hit on a lot of points that I've mentioned about the industry in this blog, and it was interesting to see a know...
http://vgbm.blogspot.com/2009/02/is-gaming-relevant-to-adults.html
We all know the name Copernicus. He is that guy that found that the Earth wasn't the center of the Universe. Today we have a similar problem in gaming. There is a certain niche in gaming that see...
http://vgbm.blogspot.com/2009/02/video-games-needs-copernicus.html
Kind of a weird way to look at things, but interesting at the same time.There were 14 million WiiFits shipped last year. (gamasutra)Every copy came with the Wii Balance Board.There were 10.8 Mill...
http://vgbm.blogspot.com/2009/01/more-wii-balance-boards-than-x360s.html
I've pondered a lot of different ways to approach the same subject - the Wii. I've enjoyed the Wii this year more than I've enjoyed any console I've ever owned (...and I been playing since the At...
Metacritic has put together a list of the top 5 Wii games of the year: http://www.metacritic.com/games/bests/2008.shtml1 - Super Smash Bros. Brawl2 - World of Goo3 - MaBoShi: The Three Shape Arca...
http://vgbm.blogspot.com/2008/12/top-wii-games-of-2008-metacritic.html
The latest NPD numbers for North America are out and guess what? Video Games have never been hotter or sold more. 2008 is still on pace to be a record year for the industry!So why is it that ever...
http://vgbm.blogspot.com/2008/12/record-sales-record-layoffs.html
The game industry needs to grow up.It's young and as a medium, games provide so many opportunities that aren't being taken.I think the industry needs the gaming equivalents of Driving Miss Daisy ...
http://vgbm.blogspot.com/2008/11/in-defense-of-wiimusic.html
I recently made my first DVD viewable on my TV through my DVD player. The process took nearly a year.In going through it all, I found myself frustrated at Microsoft for the same reasons I'm alway...
http://vgbm.blogspot.com/2008/06/off-topic-microsoft-movie-maker-and.html
In finishing up Airport Mania, one of the things that was really a struggle was the difficulty. As the designer/producer of the game, I had played it a bizillion times by the time we were ready t...
http://vgbm.blogspot.com/2008/05/take-it-easy-on-me-difficulty-in-games.html
With WiiWare launching today I've been feeling like a kid again. I only got a short play session with Lost Winds, but I was just thrilled with the innovative game play. I was playing something un...
http://vgbm.blogspot.com/2008/05/rant-innovation-to-love-to-fear.html
I'm a big fan of what Nintendo is doing. I think their focus on Innovation and Fun is right on the mark. So, I rarely make any effort to note where they are missing the mark, but with WiiFit mani...
http://vgbm.blogspot.com/2008/05/does-picture-on-box-matter.html
I read through The Casual Games Manifesto on Gamasutra today and I got all the way through despite wanting to respond immediately to some of what I saw. I guess I'm a little jaded and I'm sure it...
http://vgbm.blogspot.com/2008/04/casual-games-manifestos.html
The programmer who I've been working with on Airport Mania sent me the following image as a gag, which considering the light-hearted nature of Airport Mania contrasted with Daikatana's in-your-fa...
http://vgbm.blogspot.com/2008/04/daikatana-airport-mania.html
I'm at the GDC this week and will be hanging out at the Indie Games Summit Monday and Tuesday, and the IGF booth some of the rest of the time (Reflexive's own Axiom Overdrive is a finalist).I kep...
http://vgbm.blogspot.com/2008/02/indie-games-summit-my-game.html
My latest article has been published over at Gamasutra, and it has create a good bit of stir. I'm actually pretty happy about that as I really hoped it would be the springboard to some good discu...
http://vgbm.blogspot.com/2008/02/piracy-and-casual-games.html
I read about how AppleTV will enable Movie Rentals with great interest. The Movie industry is of course quite mature and they have learned a thing or two about how to maximize the money from thei...
http://vgbm.blogspot.com/2008/01/appletv-movie-rentals-and-casual-games.html
My newest article for Gamasutra went up yesterday, if you haven't read it you can find it here.as games have become more mainstream, our understanding of who is buying thegames has become increas...
Two of the hottest things in the gaming industry in 2007 were casual games and advertising. So adding them both together should equal bliss shouldn't it?I was reading an article on ClickZ and it ...
http://vgbm.blogspot.com/2008/01/casual-advertising-nirvana.html