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- Bob Blauschild Responds To My Open Letter! 8:38am Jun 30|1 Comment
- What Do You Call A Legit Pirate Bay? 8:36am Jun 30
- In Defense Of The Classic Controller 1:09pm Jun 29|1 Comment
You heard the news -- and I asked Twitter (if you don't follow me, c'mon already!) what the new name for Pirate Bay should be now that they've gone on the up-and-up.hazy_m@leighalexander We-Probably-No-Longer-Need-To-Keep-The-Lawyers-At Bay.Grey1986@leighalexander How about Legitimate Businessman...
We had a record 576 votes on the latest SVGL poll -- thank you to all who participated. Yes, even those who whined about the absence of a more moderate option...
I had fun at E3, although given I was there to do mostly industry-focused coverage, I kind of scheduled myself pretty intensely and got surprisingly little time to actually play any video games...
So, obviously I got busy and got behind on E3 blogging...
Lots of you asked me to go on Giant Bomb's podcast, so I did -- I would recommend skipping through me on it, though. I'm listening to it being pretty horrified at my blabbing on drunk/exhausted/wired/too loudly...
[cue zelda fortune teller tune, hum along]Remember when Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot was telling everybody to start getting ready for new hardware, at a time when everyone else -- analysts and people like EA boss John Riccitiello -- were saying to hang in for a long console cycle?Well, naturally...
[steven spielberg talks about making games more 'approachable' by removing controllers]As a longtime core gamer accustomed to a certain kind of culture and feel to my hobby, I was one of those who strongly resisted and resented Microsoft's entry into the console market...
If you have the fortitude to follow me on Twitter, you might know I'm big into music, particularly stuff local to me here in New York...
Why am I spending my last business day before E3 offsite? Either I'm crazy or at an event I really care about...
Yesterday, I asked you guys what you were looking forward to at E3...
How are you all this peaceful long weekend? Summer's funny -- one minute it seems ages away, and then suddenly, there it is...
Once, it was considered highly desirable for games to be dense, packed with cinematics and rife with hours upon hours of gameplay to lozenge at a snail's pace. Now, not so, of course.Length and slowness are seen as negatives, detractors to engagement...
If you serve in the armed forces, posted a comment on our Six Days In Fallujah discussion, and do not want your comments considered for an upcoming article, please email me at leighalexander1 at gmail dot com...
One of the things I covered closely when I was with Kotaku last year was the closure of Flagship Studios amid the crash-and-burn of Hellgate: London...
You may or may not yet have seen my Kotaku feature for this month -- it's about games as art. No, seriously...
See this over at GameSetWatch? You guys know I'm a big text adventure geek, and apparently Jim Munroe (he did Everybody Dies, if you've played that one) has gone and made one about being a coder at GDC and having to network with different people and build your game team...
About this time last year, Electronic Arts' (ultimately unsuccessful) bid for Take-Two was splashed all over our news headlines, and we here at SVGL had fun imagining a melodramatic soap opera conflict going on behind the scenes -- even though EA boss Riccitiello told me that the entire...
Sorry blogging has been light, Sexy Videogamelanders. We've been pretty busy at Gamasutra -- and to tell the truth, I haven't had much to say, since I haven't even gotten much game time in over the past few weeks...
Should a designer's objective be to build an environment where players can drive events and experiences, or should the game determine the objective, with responsibility for leading player behavior in meaningful ways?This philosophy conflict between user-created experiences and designed authorship...
I've not written very much about the Resident Evil 5 racism thing because, frankly, I'm not sure how I feel about it. I decided that I'd need to play the game with my own two hands and gain some context before I could construct a discussion of any kind around the issue...
Why am I blogging twice on a Sunday? I almost never do that. Well, because there's just so much awesome stuff out there today, and I don't want you guys to miss any of it.I just spent way too many words linking you to Tom Cross' Resident Evil 5 article...
Oh, hey! Remember around Christmastime, Michael Abbott's Brainy Gamer podcast had a whole lot of us on for just about the most epic podcast series ever? He's done it again, folks, with a new post-GDC series...
Because I am a games journalist, I am often approached by my friends for feedback and instruction on various issues...
Now that GDC is behind us and I'm back from vacation, I wanted to respond in particular to the rant by fellow Game Critics Rant panelist and Smartbomb co-author Heather Chaplin, by far the most controversial and the most-discussed.Chaplin asserted that our familiar argument that games themselves...
I am taking this week off to recoup from GDC, yay! I'm pretty sure that all I'll do all week is sleep and play Lumines. See you soon!
You knew I wasn't gonna miss this one.Just wanted to point you guys to my full coverage of Kojima's fun-fascinating talk at GDC -- he went on at his signature length, full of his usual metaphors and humor, but the result was a really comprehensive history of the design philosophy behind the Metal...
Around E3, I wrote a bit about how I felt kind of sorry for Nintendo. No matter what the company achieves, traditional gamers always seem to be disappointed with any announcement it makes...
Okay, so this post is a day late -- forgive, because I've been running around the convention center like a maniac all day, and running around the party circuit all night...
Today's day two here at GDC. Everyone I've met so far says they expected me to be taller. SURPRISE, I AM SHORT! Crucially!So let's catch up on yesterday -- do you guys remember last year at GDC I chaired and ran the Worlds in Motion Summit...
Hello everyone! I'm up bright and early (ugh) at the Moscone Convention Center for GDC. Going to be really busy this week and won't be able to blog much, but I hope to bring you quick updates, at least...
Those of you with the steel stomach to listen to my drunk Rock Paper Shotgun appearance with Kieron Gillen heard me blabber on at some length about adult games and mature content...
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