Tag: video game industry
Inevitably, a day will come when the pandemic of wokeness is dead and buried in the trash heap of history. Wokeness is a dangerous, parasitic, unsustainable, self-indulgent, ideological luxury that …
There’s a growing movement of people going off the grid and leaving the modern world behind and retreating to the simplicity and serenity of the wilderness. In the old days …
The human dominoes keep falling. It is with great sadness that I must report that yet another prolific name in the video game industry — a hero of mine — …
If you still doubt that video game studios have become assembly lines of identity politics agitprop, then I have a harrowing account of an anonymous video game developer to share …
In 2017, a book entitled The Benedict Option by Rod Dreher rocked the Christian intellectual world. He argued that for Christianity to survive in this modern, depraved, pagan, anti-Christian world, …
I just watched this remarkable video from a courageous 37 year old man named Krist who runs a gaming and streaming channel on YouTube. Like many gamers, he’s horrified by …
For the purposes of posterity, the following is the full Twitter transcript of former Team Lead for Vanilla World of Warcraft Mark Kern’s astute analysis of Blizzard Entertainment’s October 12, …
Tired of your 9 to 5 job? Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired? Are you looking for a career change? Or maybe you’re stuck in your …
There are few good books about the inner workings of the video game industry. Most end up being dry treatises which might end up being on the book list of …
Love playing video games? Got lots of original ideas? Think you can make a better video game than what’s out there? Want to get a job as a video game …
The recent drama and subsequent bankruptcy of Curt Schilling’s 38 Studios has haunted me these past few weeks. Although I was just a bystander, I was living somewhat vicariously through …
No one can deny that this past week has been a catastrophe of near biblical proportions for Curt Schilling’s 38 Studios and their proposed “Copernicus” MMO. By now most avid …
I have been blogging and championing the cause of virtual worlds and MMORPG's since 2004. I'm not a big fan of the word "blogging" and it's fellow partner in crime …
A couple of years ago something happened while I was designing the levels on a LEGO video game that I'll never forget. After the programming team added the "lives" to …
At least for me, the big appeal of participating in a MMORPG was the fact that you could interact with other people online. Not only could you band together to …
Every two years as a WoW expansion draws nearer, it seems I have to write the same article questioning the validity of Blizzard's beta selection process. Despite pointing out …
Something has changed about the MMO experience in the past six years. Chances are you probably haven't even noticed it but you can probably feel it just the same. MMO …
Recently there have been some good questions being raised and insightful explorations on the subject of role-playing in MMOs. These discussions have prompted me to put down in words what …
This week a well known MMO industry blogger and community manager Cuppycake posed a "controversial" question. Let me paraphrase: do game designers who blog know what the heck they …
I wonder how many people who buy and play video games are aware of the draconian working conditions of the average employee in the industry. Not many I wager. Until …
