“I think any worker organization is a good and healthy thing, so I support it whether or not I’m participating in.”

So it seems pretty clear that Thor Lebowski is going to be a huge Halloween costume this year, right?

The glut of post-apocalyptic fiction in pop culture at large and video games in particular has led to a set of beliefs and tropes that have settled into the bones of these stories: A moral nihilism that posits compassion as weakness, that the ends justify the means, that there is a thin line protecting us from them…

A lot of people has already said it lately, but it’s worthy to be repeated: this trend will make piracy skyrocket, and it will be the sole fault of greedy corporations. A lot of people, myself included, are up to pay for legal ways for getting content, but there’s a ceiling of reasonability that is about to be broken.…

i think it’s pretty cool that someone’s going to reinvent cable and call it an innovation

A built-in solid state drive is interesting. While they offer much better performance than a typical hard drive, they also have a pretty finite life span. If Sony gives us free cloud saving this time then at least we won’t have to worry about losing our save games, but if the SSD is the only internal storage then…

That’s the trouble with terrorism, the secrecy.

I get into arguments about this with my parents all the time. We were dirt poor when I was growing up. We never had food stamps or housing assistance, but my mom got WIC, and I had medical coverage through the state. My parents were pretty normal when I was growing up, but then they hit 55 and started watching Fox…

Never forget who shepherded the 2005 Bankruptcy bill through the Senate - and made sure credit card debts were non-dischargeable, as they previously had always been: JOE BIDEN (representing his biggest Delaware constituents: the banks and credit card issuers).

she has my campaign donation money and my vote locked in. She has more fleshed out ideas and more stamina than anyone else running. I think she’s planning on meeting everyone in the country personally based on how many town halls she’s been doing.

We needed her in the Senate in 2017. We need her in the White House in 2021!

I didn’t know this about Warren, but it makes me like her even more. I am from Massachusetts and honestly didn’t really want her to run for President. I do really like her as my Senator, but I felt like she does an amazing job in the Senate and we need her there. But I’ve changed on this, and I’m glad she is in the…

It’s pretty weird how attitudes towards “cheating” in video games have evolved over the years. I remember when I was a kid, the primary value of things like “video game magazines” was that they had the cheats in them. I knew one kid who was was briefly the coolest kid in school since he was the first in his peer…

Maybe the DA leads will round up all the negative reactions to the idea of DA4 as a live service game, put them into a PowerPoint presentation, and use it as leverage to get EA to back off. :)

😅 Thanks for saying that. You’re one the best writers in the industry.

Glad these people came forward but can’t say I’m surprised that yet another game whose target market are children and teens is infested with “cool guy/gal” 20 somethings and older who are in fact nonces and abusers.

Listen, I was 9 when the Tim Burton Batman came out too, but I try not to let it back me into bonkers takes like “Jack Nicolson was a better Joker than Heath Ledger.”

I’m so sorry.

Jason, I’ve been a developer on more than one of these types of monolithic ambitious-but-aimless projects that eventually lurches over the finish line (late). You’ve gone through months (or years) of very real suffering to get it to that point, and when it arrives, you’re embarrassed at what’s been put out. It’s…

But the emerging truth from all of them, and your book, is that the basic structure of designing games is broken. People have this desire to build these awesome worlds for us to enjoy. And in too many cases that desire, and the joy that must come with it, is turning into this nightmarish scenario.