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I’m already on record as ARG-Skeptical. However a fairly successful ARG seemed to be taking place over the course of the last couple of weeks, courtesy Valve and its “Potato Sack.”  When I initially became aware of the promotion, my only involvement was to buy the “sack,” which contained a suite of indie games at…

Actually the title of this post should read “My Thoughts on Yaoi Christine Love’s new Visual Novel ‘don’t take it personally babe it just ain’t your story’ Which Everyone is Talking About Lately and Which Contains Some Non-Graphically Depicted Elements of Yaoi.” This is just another one of those short-experience indy games with a story focus that…

Attendees from the Game Developer’s Conference were all aglee yesterday that Deadly Premonition designer SWERY was giving a translated talk for us about his design philosophy.  This is the first talk I’m writing about in this blog, even though there’s been a lot of great talks, because SWERY’s perspective is unique and must be shared.…

I’m going to be at GDC starting this evening!  I intend to blog a few times from there, but, I also have tweets you can follow at @second_truth. You know, if that’s a thing you do. I’m not sure exactly sometimes how best to leverage Twitter, ’cause I am a wordy girl, but I try…

This will contain spoilers for Fallout: New Vegas. I shot the leaders of the Omerta crime family.  Shot ’em dead. Okay, perhaps I’m overstating… actually I roll with Stealth and Speech, so what I really did was talk them in to a room, convince them to shoot at each other, then finish off the survivor…

Had a brilliant idea to replace the generic ‘books’ background for this blog with a few photographs of my actual bookshelf full of video games, warts and all.  Editing them together seamlessly is fairly hard though and the end result is kind of distracting, so I went with this more generic background instead.  Lamenting the…

This is part… let’s say two and a half, in my short series on the FPS. I should warn you that this particular entry will contain spoilers for a lot of different various shooters, so if you’re worried about being spoiled for “stuff in general” don’t read this one. Really it’s just a spoiler about…

There’s a little discussion on the internet lately about superhero movies. American men aren’t men on the screen, casting directors say, so, we need to turn to men from the other side of the pond to play our American superheroes. Here in the realm of video games, and, specifically, the American First-Person-Shooter, we don’t have…

(And I am all out of both ass and bubblegum.) Admittedly, a truly awkward title, but I also intend to discuss People Can Fly’s upcoming Bulletstorm in this article, and I couldn’t in good conscience name yet another article something like “The Coming Bulletstorm.” Often I link other articles for background material, but today, I…

Just posting to say that this weekend I am organizer for Global Game Jam in Troy, MI. It’s going very well so far out here.  I’m only organizing rather than participating this time around so I’m looking forward to seeing some amazing games!