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No Culture? Gameplay Aesthetes
Sure, it’s about a board game, and a forgettable one at that, but Greg Costikyan makes a point that it’s important to know about the history behind even bad or un-interesting games:
For what godforsaken reason are we featuring Twiggy Game today? To make a point: the danger of lack of culture.
What do I mean by [...]
Anna Anthropy on Games
This will be the second time I’ve linked to something involving Anna Anthropy (a.k.a Aunti Pixelante), but I think she’s got a particularly different take on games and play than what we usually hear. I feel this (too short) interview highlights some of that:
The videogame medium is being held hostage by a small group of [...]
What should games cost?
Recently, Amazon.com purchased one of the larger game portals, Reflexive Arcade. As part of the integration, Amazon chose to lower the prices on all the casual arcade games to $9.99. This angered publishers , causing PopCap and others to pull their games from the portal.
Jeff Tunnel (founder of Garage Games, and currently at Push Button [...]
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