I've had to be three people this week. They exist separately, in spaces that I'm better off keeping discrete for the…
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Violence in games can be great—not to mention really powerful, as we recently discussed. What about the other side…
David that story is very close to mine, I had the chance to work for Tony at his school in the 1990s, I also had all my walls covered in Gwynn memorabilia and wore 19 as many of us did. I posted this originally over at the UTSD Forums in the tribute there, but thought many of you would love this story as well. Its…
I was feet-up in my basement playing PlayStation when I heard about Tim Kurkjian's piece over at ESPN on "The…
With all due respect, Tom, I think we can all agree that the best inning a pitcher can have is when his first pitch sails into the stands and kills Mike Lupica.
Guy doing the finger guns can fuck right off.
Dark Souls II can be notoriously difficult for the uninitiated. Sometimes we all could use a bit of help. Well I am…
Back when Stephen Colbert was on The Daily Show, he also used to do radio-ad voiceover work for extra money. I was a…
Read that with the voice of the narrator of Stanley Parade. It's more funnier like that.
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Interested in writing about games? Last week a bunch of game critics attended the first-ever Critical Proximity mini-conference in San Francisco. I gave a talk; my topic was "Writing games criticism for a mainstream audience." You can read a text version here.
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Not too long ago, I jumped ship on an office job and career that was great, but not my passion. I took a huge risk…
Excellent piece. Peter's a strange guy, but he's definitely fascinating. He wrote me a letter of recommendation for a job offering after I sent him a letter in the mail!
Back in mid-2012, for four minutes and six seconds, I thought the coolest big-budget video game I'd seen in years…
In other news, his replacement has already been named.
It's the most common question I receive from aspiring freelancers of all types: How much should I charge? The…