Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Jul 1, 2008	Salvador Allende: His Example Lives On
Reflections of Fidel: HE was born one hundred years ago in Valparaiso, in southern Chile, on June 26, 1908. His father, a middle-class lawyer and notary, was a member of Chile’s Radical Party. When I was born, Allende was already 18 years old. He was pursuing secondary studies in high...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  May 27, 2008	British Government Warns British Nationals About Bahamian Water Sports
British Gov’t Warns About Bahamian Water Sports: By QUINCY PARKER - Nassau, Bahamas: A top government official is issuing assurances in the face of a warning by an arm of the British government about the Bahamian water sports industry – that warning goes so far as to advise British...... [view]

Posted By:  Morphix Posted On:  May 23, 2008	ESA Exodus
The Entertainment Software Association seems to be losing a lot of major players lately.  LucasArts pulled out last week, followed by Activision Blizzard earlier this week, and now iD software.  EA has stated they have no intention of leaving , but nevertheless, this smells strongly of a...... [view]

Posted By:  Morphix Posted On:  May 23, 2008	What is a Successful Game?
From a critical standpoint, Metacritic is about objective as things are likely to get. My own research uses Metacritic, and most of the industry looks to it for the “official” critical score. Steam embeds the Metacritic score right in the interface, and Microsoft announced...... [view]

Posted By:  Morphix Posted On:  Apr 2, 2008	Byron Review
If you haven’t checked it out yet, the Byron Review has been released (full text here ).  Tanya Byron, she’s a widely respected clinical psychologist who actually knows what she’s talking about.  She was commisioned by the Prime Minister of the UK to conduct an indepentant...... [view]

Posted By:  Morphix Posted On:  Mar 26, 2008	What Ever Happened to Tex Murphy?
Chris Jones and Aaron Conners? Backup.  Today’s Zero Punctuation regarding Zack and Wiki features references to several old adventure games (Yahtzee himself being a designer of some very emotive ones ).  Among these are two piece of box art that are probably unfamiliar to most...... [view]

Posted By:  Morphix Posted On:  Mar 21, 2008	Get Over the Hardcore
Stardock has built themselves a tidy little market turning around profits that are orders of magnitude higher than their development costs (under a million!).  They’ve done this on the piracy haven that is the PC, and without using DRM.  In the dawning hours, as the industry is...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Mar 7, 2008	The Bahamas is one of six countries in the Caribbean region that elected not to sign onto the Petrocaribe document
Laing: Petrocaribe Fervor Dimming - By Tameka Lundy: Nassau, Bahamas: Enthusiasm has waned for the Petrocaribe initiative, proposed by Venezuela as a mechanism under which Caribbean nations would access oil at a cut rate, State Minister for Finance Zhivargo Laing has asserted. The...... [view]

Posted By:  Morphix Posted On:  Feb 26, 2008	A Week in Cuba
As previously mentioned, I went on vacation last week, and apparently the world does not stop while I’m laying on the beach. Big news of the last week.  Apparently it was GDC or something.  I wasn’t there, so if you want juicy GDC goodness, you’ll have to look elsewhere...... [view]

Posted By:  Morphix Posted On:  Dec 13, 2007	A Critique of Video Games
To say that there’s a debate on whether or not video games are art is rather disingenuous. There are those who feel that video games are not, but I think it’s been demonstrated that they don’t know what the hell they’re talking about. The very question of “Are...... [view]

Posted By:  Morphix Posted On:  Dec 5, 2007	On Console Commoditization
Dennis Dyack is an interesting character.  While you have to respect someone who’s that vocal and passionately committed to his craft, I do have to disagree with his point of view on a regular basis.  Electronic Arts and Dyack have both been quoted in popular press advocating for a...... [view]

Submitted By:   ksingh16 Event Date:  Aug 7, 2008 & Time: 09:00 AM-18:00 PM Event Location:  TBA [view]

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