I’ve been in a bit of a new game rut lately—I want to play something new, but I want to find just the right game to play.  This is a concern we’ve all had: starting up that fresh new experience, instantly meshin...

(It's been over 3 years since my last CBlog, and the formatting has changed.  Bear with me if you notice mistakes and inconsistencies.  This is going to be a rather long personal story, though I promise there's a videogame-re...

I want to stop shooting people. When that came out, it may have been one of the strangest things I'd ever written, but it's true.  Not every videogame is violent, but it's something that permeates our hobby.  Games with guns...

Yeah, I said it.  I love Quick Time Events.  Playable cutscenes.  Poor excuses for interactivity in an already interactive medium.  There's something to be said for a game that tries to give you control over something that would normally be...

Confirming that I still care about things, Tomonobu Itagaki, former Master Ninja at Team Ninja and current head of Valhalla Game Studios said that Devil's Third is still on track.  Due to timing issues, the game won't be at E3, but he is ...

As part of what I hope will be a repeated, if sporadic, blog series, I'm looking at interesting game mechanics that I find worth discussing. My friend and I are in the design process of making a small game, and following advice from Yacht ...

Mornin'. It seems fitting to me that my first blog entry is about Mega Man, who led me into gaming when neither he nor I could yet walk properly. Today (4/9) saw the revelation of the long-cancelled "Maverick Hunter," and the voices of a ...