Well, Christmas came and went, and many people coming into Denver either never got here or can’t get back out. The neighborhood kids are starting a nice little college fund with their snow shovels - or they’re going to be able to vacation in Barbados or something…
Either way, clearing driveways and sidewalks looks to be […]

I’ve got Zune on the brain.
(I suppose I should label this a Spoiler Warning … just in case you are under the Age Of Santa Knowledge.)
It’s one of the perils of adulthood, keeping up the Santa Myth. Perhaps there are other ways to do it, but in our house my wife and I agree on […]

Oh, the weather outside is frightful… looks like we’ll have a White Christmas here in Colorado this year.
As I write this, we’re socked in with nearly two feet of snow on the ground; it’s coming down harder every minute and isn’t supposed to let up for another 24-28 hours or so. Thank goodness my Internet […]

Finally. I landed one.
Through an unlikely confluence of good timing and blind luck, I stumbled upon my local game store and was standing at the counter right as the store’s clerks opened a box with exactly one 60-gig PlayStation 3 unit inside.
Happy holidays, indeed.
Upon my return, I unpacked the unit and got things up and […]

If you have a sports gamer on your list, and you can’t figure out what to get them, I’ve written an article for Xbox.com that might help. All of the titles in the article are readily available in stores everywhere - no mall-foraging necessary.
Of course, if they’re a hard-core sports gamer, they may already have […]

There’s little doubt in my mind that Gears Of War is the runaway Game Of The Year. Fantastic graphics and animation, fascinating art direction, stunning sound design, excellent mechanics such as “Active Reload” … and on and on. It may actually be “the next Halo” that it was hyped to be: an early title that […]

The Federal Trade Commission finally got involved in cleaning up the rather deceptive practice known as “viral marketing”, laying the groundwork for making disclosure of such campaigns as connected to a advertiser mandatory by law, including legal ramifications for violators.
This would mean that the Sony/Zipatoni-created All I Want For Xmas Is A PSP.com would have […]

You may have heard of Cliff Bleszinski. He’s a remarkably successful and borderline brilliant game designer, whose titles tend to veer into the creatively gory arenas of twitch gaming. His latest release, Gears of War, has exploded onto the Xbox 360 scene with better sales numbers than even Microsoft expected.
Bleszinski, who refers to himself as […]

It’s almost barely worth commenting on, a simple puff of marketing smoke. Wired brings news that a completely unknown entity has bought the rights to make a game of Joss Whedon’s Firefly. Basically, it’s a press release announcing that we’ll be seeing more press releases in the future.
Still - I can’t help but get a […]

I hate to pick on marketing folks. Really, I do - but it’s just far too easy when it comes to the video game industry.
Viral marketing (in other words, non-traditional marketing that’s designed to create word-of-mouth “buzz”) is all the rage thanks to a few successful attempts by marketers in the past, and everyone’s trying […]