Defining Property

In the future, and by future I mean within the decade, we’re going to have a serious discussion about what property in a digital, post-scarcity era means.  We’re going to have to determine how much control the purchaser, the original IP creator and the distributor has over a piece of data and how much of [...]

Lost Narrative: Event-Based Narration Part I

In a video game, things happen.  It may sound like a fundamental aspect of, well, every type of narrative medium, but it’s particularly true of video games.  Video games are about events and scenarios.  Since the audience is directly participating in the narrative, it’s important to jump to the exciting bits and skipping out on [...]

Writer’s Block

For the past couple of months, I’ve alluded to my writer’s block as the reason for my long spaces between posts and erratic update schedule.  Even on weeks when I could or did update regularly, it would be at odd times or late at night or something.  Granted, it’s not all been writer’s block, a [...]

Suddenly, my junior year of high school seems so much weirder

This is going to be a short little rant tonight.  It’s late and I’m preparing to write something kinda big for tomorrow about something I saw on Kotaku.  Anyway, enjoy my confusion. I think I can officially say “I’m too old for this shit.” At least, I can say it about something.  For anyone too [...]

Just phoning it in tonight

OK, I’ll admit.  I couldn’t find anything I wanted to write about tonight, except about the end of exclusivity for Mass Effect, but I just wasn’t feeling that post.  Now, it’s almost midnight, and I’ve got nothing to show for it. Fortunately, io9.com delivered for me with a link to this hilarious video.  It’s called [...]

It’s Over

Not the blog.  No, actually, I’ll probably be updating more frequently now.  I’m referring to a specific chapter of my life that ended today.  During that time, I suffered with some serious depression issues that I don’t really want to get into, but they’ve been helped out by playing lots of World of Warcraft. I [...]

I’m just super excited

Okay, I really don’t have too much to say.  I had a really stressful weekend and I spent most of last week without sleep, so I’m in a kind of “resting” mode.  I had a few ideas for today’s article, but quite frankly, I’m just too excited for Mass Effect 2 and because of the [...]

Back from break

I took a somewhat unintended break last week after a particularly grueling set of papers.  I had 10 pages to layout in Okarche and 12 for Piedmont, so I came home too fucking tired to write on Monday and Tuesday, and then Thursday and Friday were Christmas.  I was snowed in, since Oklahoma got hit [...]

A Little Balance Goes a Long Way

Some games revolutionize the genre.  These games drag the genre into the next level, whether the genre, and the audience, is ready for it or not.  Other games build and evolve the genre, adding little bits piece by piece until.  “Dragon Age: Origins” for the PC, X-Box 360 and PS3 is a game of the [...]

I’m back and I’m rested

I took the past week off to rest a little bit.  Work had become really stressful and while I had some time to update over Thanksgiving break, I decided to take the time off to have a complete brain reboot.  I had just gotten way too tired and I figured that would be the best [...]