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Walking to the Moon

By Chris Lewis | Published: June 27, 2009
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Games for girls segment on Today show

By Jim Whitehead | Published: June 19, 2009

This segment on the Today show, aired June 18, 2009, talks about how the games industry is increasingly focusing on girls and women in game creation and marketing. While the segment has its cringeworthy moments (floating talking head in a video game world, ew!), it mostly provides a good overview of current industry thinking about […]

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1 vs 100: Mob Rule After The Death of the Quiz Show

By Chris Lewis | Published: June 10, 2009

All last week, Microsoft has been trialling 1 vs 100, an Xbox Live version of the popular game show. For those uninitiated, the real 1 vs 100 pits a contestant, dubbed The One, against 100 other people, called The Mob. All players answer each question. If a member of the Mob gets it wrong, they’re […]

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Dear Friends 2005, the “Melodies of Life”

By Sherol Chen | Published: June 10, 2009

Let me tell you about how far game music has come since I was a young child… When I was a young girl, I loved Final Fantasy.  All my school assignments, given that I had a choice, was related to Final Fantasy.  I’m such the evangelist, that I took a tape recorder (the one my […]

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You Must Be This Old To Play

By Chris Lewis | Published: June 5, 2009

I’ve been playing Free Realms a lot; it’s a fantastic game. It’s hard not to shake the feeling that I’m the creepy guy of video games. You know, the one that plays Animal Crossing? Reading the Free Realms chat channel, there’s a lot of “asl?”, just like when I was a young’un in IRC. That […]

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Mass Effect / Star Trek

By Chris Lewis | Published: May 26, 2009

Who inspired who?

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