It’s Boxing Day where I’m at. I hope anyone reading this had, or is having, a great holiday. See you next week.

This past week, I sold one story and received a request for edits on another. While that is pretty cool, I thought this might be a good opportunity to talk vaguely about editing.There is ...

Let's talk about stealing. Stealing ideas. It’s what I do. If you write or code or make art or create anything, you probably steal too.I have written here several times about stealing ga...

Best Games - Pitfall II : Lost Caverns 1984 was a weird year for video games in North America. Atari was the dominant player in the industry by an extremely wide margin, and they were abs...

It won’t happen right away, but sometime soon, this blog will change. I’ve been undertaking the slow process of moving it to a new home for a while. It will look different, because, well,...

One of the benefits of having a massive library of classic arcade roms literally at my fingertips, is the art. Each of these games, thanks to all the people who preserve these sorts of things,...

Best Games - WarlordsDo you like pong? Yeah, that two player tennis type game that you play by twisting a knob.Do you like Breakout? Yeah, that single player pong type game where you systemati...

I’ve got a few stories out for consideration at different outlets right now. They keep getting to the second or even third read stage before getting rejected. Most of the story review pr...

Best Games - Pang (or Pomping World or Buster Bros.)The early 80s were a time of wild experimentation for computer and arcade games. Game ideas would come from clever bits of code that someone...

I had planned to write about a fun old game this week. Or maybe I would have called an audible and wrote something about writing or submitting or art or how inspiration can come from anywhere ...