Posts tagged with Games
The Employee-Founder Disconnect
Another month, another job posting ripe for internet ridicule. In this case, it's a job listing from the creator of Stardew Valley, looking for an administrative assistant to help him with a number of tasks while he continues…
Centuplicate Tetris
M.A.G. was a one-of-a-kind shooter on the PlayStation 3. Where other games were content with 16- or 32-player skirmishes, M.A.G. figured that 256[1] players in the same game would be a…
Review: NieR: Automata: Long Story Short
NieR: Automata was a critically acclaimed action game with heavy RPG and story elements first released in 2017. Its success was quite surprising: it’s a sequel to a series of good-but-not-widely-loved games in NieR and…
Diablo on the Go
Diablo 3 was first released in the spring of 2012. For those who haven't played the games, the Diablo series was really the precursor to modern loot-based action games as well as the joke-turned-to-actual-…
Reflecting on 20 Years of NBA2K
By the time this post gets published, 2K Sports will have released the newest iteration of their best-selling NBA2K series—NBA 2K19—which this year will also mark the 20th game and 20th year for the annual franchise. I&…
The Coming-of-Age of E-sports
I ran across this article recently, comparing the culture and business of professional sports with competitive gaming, a la e-sports: Why Competitive Gaming is Starting to Look a lot Like Professional Sports It's a pretty detailed look…
