Moving on from Google
This past Monday, I left Google. There are a lot of very interesting things going on at Google right now, and I enjoyed working with many of the people there, but it was not the perfect fit for me. I’m…
Gamescom 2010 30second circles
One of the things I really like doing at places that seem unusual to me is to take quick 30 second video circles of them. It’s hard to capture the complete feel of a place with simple pictures, or a…
Sharing video game history
Scott Steinberg’s article on CNN.com this morning got me thinking. Not about museums per se, but making historic games available for people to play and study. However, let me first get something off my chest about video game museums. I’m…
The demise of the term “social game”
Paul Hyman’s article on Gamasutra this morning was timely, as I’ve been thinking a lot about the term “social game” lately and what it actually means. Increasingly its usefulness as a descriptor is over. Five or ten years ago we…