When Untold Entertainment Inc. turned three last year, we were reeling from the fallout of the global economic collapse. It’s been a slow, difficult recovery, and we still have a lot of work left to do, but i’m happy to say we’ve nosed out of the tailspin. This was a landmark year for Untold; we [...] Keep Reading

i feel like i set off a firecracker in the Internet boys’ bathroom with my story of how gosh-darned clever i was, lying and cheating my way to GDC rant victory. i posted the article Saturday night, and by early Sunday morning, i’d been featured on the front pages of Reddit, Hacker News, PCGamer, and [...] Keep Reading

From reading my surprise guest rant at GDC this year, you might think i’m a card-carrying member of the Zynga Fan Club (a club which forces you to re-confirm membership every fifteen minutes, and which sells you an auto-re-confirmation cantelope for $2). i think a lot of what motivates people to gripe about Zynga stems [...] Keep Reading

When i circled the Social Game Developers Rant in my GDC schedule as a must-see session, i had no idea that i’d wind up improvising my own rant in front of the thousands of attendees. The story of how that happened is an interesting study in the attitudes of the game industry’s top iconic figures, [...] Keep Reading

All week, i’ve been blogging about the 2010 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Here’s the coverage: Bonus! Flash Gaming Summit Tuesday – Scaling Farmville, Fantastic Contraption, and Push Button Labs Wednesday – Quality of life, tips from Ninjabee, virtual goods, Agile/Scrum, social games, indie rants Thursday – Kids’ talk breakfast, Zynga/Farmville, game studio start-ups, [...] Keep Reading