Recent content by turkmenistan

I didn't mean wanky first-person stuff so much as kick-ass thoughtful stuff. That would be "new." Non-gamers are writing better stories about gaming than game journos. Like this: http://www.westword.com/2007-03-08/news/the-legend-of-leeroy-jenkins/full Yeah, a couple game mags have...

When you posted that, Baby Jesus cried.

If I had to vote for a great piece of writing on games last year, John Seabrook's feature on Will Wright in the New Yorker trounced all of the "game journalists" by a wide mile. And while Seabrook is a tech writer, he is not a hardcore gamer or close student of the industry. The New Yorker...

People often compare game crit to rock crit. But the first rock critics - XGau, Metzler - were intelligent, aggressive and creative writers who understood criticism (old-school, literary-style), hated authority and wrote great pieces. Some people want more gonzo critics, eg Bangs, but I'd kill...

Kwip, those are good points. I'm sorry actually, I must have been in a dick mood when I wrote that post. It was a well-written article and it's not like these guys give up their deepest, darkest secrets to anyone who asks - it's pretty easy for them to keep saying "Look! This is shiny! Look...

Nice to have interviewed someone on the dev team, but this doesn't shed much light on the details of how a license is adapted to a game, except that you should get approval and pay attention to the details. How did Turbine get the license? How did they deal with problems like reinterpreting...