So, you want to build a game, but all of that coding and leg work sounds too much like… well… work. Isn’t there another option? The answer is a qualified “Yes.� You’ve heard of this thing called “open source� which many penny-pinchers translate as free. While this is not the place fo...

   Nostalgic, Retro Gaming and Twitter! Recently there has been noticed a comeback to retro style in pretty much everything. Fashion, interior, industrial, graphic design, etc. Why? Maybe because we're becoming nostalgic . Or maybe because retro represents a generational response by the un...

Japanese gamer-blogger-cosplayer otaku queen Shoko Nakagawa shares her geeky passions in an interview with The Japan Times today. She reveals how, as a mainstream idol early in the millennium, she initially hid her anime and gaming geekery on a blog she didn’t expect anyone to read. I wasnR...

This is a fascinating article, one that deserves more attention than I can give it in this short item. Chris Lott defends (what he perceives to be) the OER movement against (what he perceives to be) its critics - people like Brian Lamb and Leigh Blackall. These two veterans of open content and open ...

Poor PC gaming, it's the Mark Twain of video game systems, a rumor caught in an exaggeration wrapped in a George Romero flick. Flip through the dailies and you'll invariably come across some blogger in Timbuktu cobbling tea leaves and magic eight ball wisdom into a diatribe about the waning of the.....

Poor PC gaming, it's the Mark Twain of video game systems, a rumor caught in an exaggeration wrapped in a George Romero flick. Flip through the dailies and you'll invariably come across some blogger in Timbuktu cobbling tea leaves and magic eight ball wisdom into a diatribe about the waning of the.....

Combining aspects of things that people already enjoy is one of the best ways to make an impression on a market without having to be completely original or creative.  For the past couple of months, there has been a surge of such activity in the form of ‘angry' video game reviews. ...