Day Two at GDC 09 is down. My dogs are barking, and my feet hurt too. The day began with a breakfast organized by a Dutch delegation and the Canadian government. The meeting was held at Jillian’s, a restaurant/bar across the street from the convention. They served the best croissant i’ve ever had in my [...] Keep Reading

Day One is down at the Game Developers’ Conference in San Francisco. It was a good day, but i’m already exhausted. Something about the nauseating flight, the endless walking, and the desperate search for wifi has sapped my energy and turned me into a shell of a man. Hot, spicy travel tip: if your hotel [...] Keep Reading

As i was packing my carry-on bag to head out for GDC this week, i realized that this my first airplane flight in about 20 years that my portable Nintendo game device (GameBoy, GameBoy Color, GameBoy SP, Nintendo DS Phat, Nintendo DS Lite, Nintendo DS: Now with 20% Less Salt, etc) wasn’t accompanying me. No [...] Keep Reading

Thursday night is my night to kick back on the couch and play Xbox Live games with a friend of mine a few cities over. Last night we were trolling for new stuff to play, when he mentioned he’d just downloaded Hasbro’s Family Game Night. It’s a mini-game collection packed with Hasbro’s beaten-dead-horse standbys like [...] Keep Reading

i’m just getting back from IN09, the re-branded interactive ontario new media conference formerly known as ICE, and to be known in the future simply as I (short “I” sound, like the one you make when you’re cleaning out your fridge for the first time in six months, and some of what used to be [...] Keep Reading