Dads have changed over the years .. my dad still calls me to ask how to turn off the computer .. He tends to treat it like the toaster and just pull the plug.

Almost all games have an optimal strategy and players will eventually figure it out. Just look at StarCraft and Texas Holdem ..

I was there almost at the beginning .. Post Atari 2600 era .. I think the coolest thing was I got to meet Silas Warner of Castle Wolfenstein fame. He died in 2004. I also got to me Richard Garriott back in the late 80's. At that time he was still wearing a cape and crown and asking (demanding) that people call him…

I left Westwood around 91 .. I was a designer on Dune II and a writer on EOB II. Westwood had some really talented guys .. The stuff that Louis Castle, Joe Bostic and Mike Legg did still blows my mind. Also, Rick Parks was one the greatest digital artists of all time.

Many of the core Westwood gang remain .. The company is called Petroglyph Games.

1988 .. Westwood Associates ..

Fair enough .. BTW the quote is not from me, but an explanation from another prank show ..

Almost all Japanese prank shows have some staging to them, they are not faked.

I design slot machines and most are a form of gambling .. especially games like Candy Crush. The problem isn't that they are violating any regulation or law. The problem is that a jurisdiction has to first make determination it is a gambling device or program.

EA is on track to win the "Worst Company in America" award for the third year in a row. Bank of America is a distant second place. I don't play EA games.

I design slot machines .. and Candy Crush is a slot machine, it just doesn't have any payout. It's not even that original an idea. I wonder if I could file a complaint with Nevada Gaming against King for violating Nevada and (more importantly) California gaming regs. Specifically the rules that talk about optimal play…

I was a designer back in the late 80's and I can tell you there was no conception of copyright, intellectual property or trademark protection. Big companies were stealing code and design all the time. It was worse than a Zimmerman painting.

It's not like this is new .. happens all the time. Both parties are just maneuvering for a settlement.

As an agnostic, I try with all my might to accept that people who believe that eggs are people are people too.

I was a designer on Dune II .. and a little bit on the first C&C

The SnackMaster is always unappreciated .. Thank you Maker of Snacks .. thank you from all of us.

This is not an unusual phenomena at all - It's not even that unusual for the video game industry. This is why you have marketing .. I know many video game developers think that marketing people sit around and come up with taglines for games .. that is advertising.

I was sure that the rarest game that nobody could play was Chris Crawford's Balance of Power - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance_o…

And in an example of Parallel Evolution, the Europeans invent plate armor.

Day Z is broken and the more they fix the less the expedience. It is because it is broken that makes the game strange and beautiful and horrifying.