Month: August 2010
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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 really happy that some museums are sprouting up, and I’m a big fan of the […]
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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 all talked about “online games”. When I ran developer relations at Sony I remember giving […]