To quote Paul Simon, "every generation throws a hero up the pop charts." We all know the game industry is cyclical; here's how it works.

I called this out as one of the trends I saw at GDC. Last year, people were saying that Farmville was not a game, and I argued that it was. This year, I wrote about narrative not being a mechanic a…

Stars Reach feels like it might be a giant leap for MMORPGs. Read Eddie's thoughts on the upcoming game here:

To quote Paul Simon, "every generation throws a hero up the pop charts." We all know the game industry is cyclical; here's how it works.

Yesterday I was in Anaheim giving a talk called “Industry Lifecycles.” (click here for slides and video). It was intended to be a brief summary of the blog post of the same title, with …

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I’m skeptical of the proposed technology behind Stars Reach, but what I saw feels like the next big step in cultivating a virtual life in online gaming. The post ‘Stars Reach’ Shoots For The Stars With Exploration And Player Expression appeared first on But Why Tho?.

Stars Reach is an ambitious new MMO from the creator of Ultima Online that hopes to bring the genre back to its more creative and open-ended roots.

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We talk to Raph Koster, the creator of Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies, about his ambitious new MMO and how the genre at large can survive.

The world is full of systems. Often they exist below the threshold of what we perceive. It’s all a whirling clockwork of near-infinite complexity, from the tiny mysteries of quantum physics t…

The world is full of systems. Often they exist below the threshold of what we perceive. It’s all a whirling clockwork of near-infinite complexity, from the tiny mysteries of quantum physics t…