Recent content by Howard Wen

When Worlds Collide One of the experiments of the AR Second Life project at Georgia Tech brings avatars out of the virtual world of Second Life and into the real world to interact with real people. Imagine wearing a head-mounted display and checking out that sexy avatar you've had your eye on...

Interview: Cryptic Allusion on Keeping the Dream(cast) Alive "'Sega's focus on the hardcore player made them a failure in the general marketplace ... so most people see the console as a complete flop. I suppose that means it depends on how you view the console's place in the genealogy of gaming...

So Game We All "In January 2005, after the first season of Battlestar Galactica ended, Napoleon Nicdao rallied fans of the show within the FreeSpace 2 modding community, Hard Light Productions, to create a "simple" mod, which over time evolved into the standalone Beyond the Red Line. A 3-D...

What Happened To The Last Starfighters? "Suhr theorizes that the genre started to fade from the marketplace at a point in time when gameplay shifted toward simpler controls and away from realistic schemes, which included those of airplane simulators. Many of the classic space sims can be tricky...

Dan Ferguson: The Escapist Interview "People are willing to get involved. They're willing to give up some of their time, even if it is branded, even if it has a marketing message, if it's fun. So they're paying attention. They're getting engaged in the experience, which is really powerful...

Welcome to The Escapist First Annual Slammy Awards... All this week, the Slamdance Film Festival has been going on in Park City, Utah. Curiously lacking in the gaming press has been coverage of the festival's Guerrilla Gamemaker Competition. That's probably because all the big news about the...