It was day three at GDC 09, and my armour has started to crack. i simply lacked the energy to slump out to the 9AM keynote by Nintendo president Satoru Iwata. i missed out on a free DS game, but as i mentioned earlier, i have a new handheld lover these days. One highlight that [...] Keep Reading

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