Posts tagged with Games
The Many Buttons of GTA5
I’ve been working through the PS4 version of Grand Theft Auto 5 recently. It’s something like the 7th game in the series (after GTA3 added a number of sequels labeled GTA3 but were fully-fledged titles), and at…
The Dying Web
The web is dying? Of course it's dying. The author of this opinion piece isn't the first to point out that it seems like mobile apps are taking up a ton of time and attention away…
White Label Gaming
I've been slogging through My NBA 2k15 on my phone. The game is based on collecting cards to battle other players offline, and its core is identical to that of another game, WWE SuperCard. In fact, they simply…
Unearthing an Old Programming Document
The internet never forgets. If nothing else, the Wayback Machine does a dutiful job of saving mostly coherent snippets of the web across an impressive breadth of time. I was reminded again a couple weeks ago, when someone sought me…
Virtually Collectable Card Bits
The story goes, I was tired and slightly bored during a recent business trip, and ended up downloading Blizzard's free card game Hearthstone from my hotel room. A few hundred games later, I can start to appreciate the…
Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation
Those of us who grew up with video games in the 90s fondly remember the "console wars" of that era. There was Nintendo, with its iconic Super Nintendo system, filled to the brim with Mario and Yoshi and…
