We are building an AS3 Helper class to speed up development on Actionscript 3 projects. Feel free to use these methods in your own Helper class, or to share your own methods that you find useful. Wrap() 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 [...] Keep Reading

MTV Multiplayer has an article where they talk about how Sigourney Weaver passed on voicing Ripley for some upcoming Aliens games. Her reasoning was twofold: 1) The designers’ Ripley was out of character, swearing like a sailor and shooting up sick people and human marines (in addition to the expected alien fodder) 2) The developer [...] Keep Reading

It’s Christmastime, which means that children’s thoughts turn to visions of huge presents awaiting them under the tree, and reporters’ thoughts turn to sensationalizing video game violence on their respective news shows. One reporter recently phoned it in, shoehorning me into the standard “think of the children” conclusion in his story on video game violence [...] Keep Reading

Dr. Karl Kabasele from local Toronto news swung by last week to interview me for a story on violent media and aggression. i basically dominate the entire segment. i’m surprised i was relegated to the back half of the show, actually, sandwiched between the weather and a report on winter doggie fashions. Terrorism in Mumbai? [...] Keep Reading

Variety has a postmortem on failed video game company Brash Entertainment. The studio was apparently helmed by clueless film execs who pushed out titles that were even worse than your usual licensed movie games. No small feat. It reeks to me of a problem i’m seeing a lot lately in the games industry, particularly with [...] Keep Reading