I want to talk about fear. None of us is fearless. Fear is a great driver of human nature. Fear caused us to congregate in groups and tribes to ward off large predators. Fear moved us to harne...

Games used to be different.I tend to dislike “used to be” stories. You know the ones. The world used to be like this, or people used to act like that. Even when they are partially ...

Best Games - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GalaxyThere was never any chance that text adventures would last. Not in any real way. There are a lot of people who still dabble in the genre,...

What you are really designing against is boredom. Somewhere along the path to writing that book or composing that song or staging that production, they have all had that thought. It might have...

I think pro wrestling is awesome. I try to stay current with the personalities and performers. I have read no fewer than four books by wrestlers about wrestling. At least the book jackets said...

I have been doing a lot of 3D modelling lately. The tools I have to work with now are so much better, so much richer, more stable, and capable than anything I ever used in the past. This isn&r...

Best Games - Smash TV Did you know that The Godfather wasn’t the first gangster movie? There were a lot of them. Like really, a lot. All sorts. Funny ones, scary ones, true ones, boring ones. All ...

The first game that I ever played networked multiplayer, was Doom. That isn’t true. I wish that it were true, but it’s not. Getting Doom to connect was an arduous task and we didn&...

I went to school for computer animation in 1998. You can go and look up the first release of the juggernaut graphics package Maya. When I started school Maya hadn’t been released. We lea...