i’ve never (voluntarily) grown a beard or a moustache before. Puberty kind of imposed a weak ‘stache on me in my junior high days, and since i didn’t have a dad around to teach me how to shave my face, it kind of overstayed its welcome. Then later, in high school, i decided to try [...] Keep Reading

[this article was originally posted on MochiLand.com] Credits are those long, scrolling pages of text at the end of the movie that you watch just to see if the filmmakers added a special jokey tack-on scene at the end of the flick. If you read closely, you’ll see that they are the names of people [...] Keep Reading

Two Christmases ago, i bought an iPod Touch 2nd generation and a MacBook to pursue iOS game development. Recently, the battery power on the iPod has been dropping dramatically. This week, it stopped charging altogether. i took the device to the Apple Store, where the Genius™ in the back told me that the iPod’s battery [...] Keep Reading

CONTENT WARNING: HERE BE TITTIES The State of California wants to ban violent video games. That’s the take-away many gamers are carrying around with them after entirely misunderstanding and misinterpreting the latest news about violence in gaming. There’s an incredibly ugly and empty-headed collective knee-jerk reaction among gamers that you can provoke by stringing the [...] Keep Reading

In 2009, the Vortex Game Competition used municipal and provincial Canadian funding to award its top prize to a Scottish game design team. We followed up on allegations made by CultureGET, a news blog that covered the event, and found that last year’s Vortex winners, Alex Quick and John Josephson, likely had nothing to do [...] Keep Reading