I originally wrote a draft of this post what feels like an eternity ago on August 14th. In crypto, that might as well have been the dark ages. My thinking has evolved since then but I still… Read More

I.The crypto markets are down nearly 50% from their peak earlier this year, but people are still excited about all things blockchain, and gaming is no exception. Early blockchain games were… Read More

This is an edition of Fringes, my roughly weekly* newsletter about my travels on the fringes on the internet. Often about games, sometimes about... other things.*Except that it's now been se… Read More

This is an edition of Fringes, my roughly weekly newsletter about my travels on the fringes on the internet. Often about games, sometimes about... other things.🚨 I fixed the email re… Read More

I wrote about the game Path of Exile (PoE)  briefly in my newsletter a few weeks ago, calling it “the collective fever dream of an army of mad systems designers”. Sometimes… Read More

If gaming is eating culture, I’d like to avoid being eaten. But if you’re interested in the future of gaming, what should you do? Besides playing lots of games, of course.Gaming… Read More

In part 1 on Noodle Theory, we talked about using artificial stat boosts to give players the illusion of skill progression. In part 2, we dive into the other noodle flavors that games use to… Read More

In The Grasshopper: Games, Life, Utopia, Bernard Suits defines a game as “a voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles.” We know people love to play games, but people's… Read More

I.A magical effect of the internet has been to connect people ranging across the globe in new, and previously impossible ways. Just last week I was on Clubhouse listening to random people in… Read More

Here’s a puzzle: How is it that gaming can be a bigger industry than Hollywood, with launches that regularly outperform the biggest blockbuster films, yet still feel less culturally re… Read More

I.One of my favorite things about the internet is that it enables “communities in everything”. I love discovering internet communities that are super passionate about some hyper… Read More

Testing theming. A post to explore the themes.II. A headingA new section under a new heading. Lorem ipsum sit dolor amet. The test block continues onward here as I write more and more text t… Read More

This review of Flappy Bird is by far the most amazing thing I’ve read all year. It may be the best review I read all year, despite the fact that we are only one month in. But in fetis… Read More

(Disclosure: I work at a company that makes free to play games. This opinion is my own.) This weekend, the internet briefly went nuts again over the specter of in-app purchases destroying ga… Read More

“"Russian space lizards return to Earth"” - The Guardian, offering up maybe the greatest headline of all time. (via davidnibert) Read More

“The thing looked fierce: the pointy ram intake/radome evokes images of the spiked helmet of a Prussian solder. The tiny, recessed cockpit of some versions makes it appear like some si… Read More

One thing I’ve noticed from this round of the Overwatch beta, is that Blizzard chose to show win-loss records in your career profile. Another thing I’ve noticed is people leaving… Read More

I decided to start keeping track each year of the books I read and the games I played. These aren’t all necessarily published in 2014, but I read them this year. Favorite books Non-fi… Read More

This bit of news from RPS is pretty remarkable: We’re not even halfway through 2014, and Steam has already added more new games than it did in the entirety of 2013. Is PC gaming head… Read More

Last week I read this critique of Titanfall’s “unlock” system, as compared to Call of Duty. “Unlock” isn’t really the right word, since the author isn&rsq&hell…Read More

I have a long way to go with my wok-ing skills Read More

davidnibert: (photo: US Navy) This is a laser gun. The US Navy now has ships equipped with laser guns. Guns…that fire lasers. I just…am having trouble with this. With a poin… Read More

I started using Reader November 30, 2005, a bit over a month after the product was launched (according to the Official Reader Blog). I remember using Bloglines as my RSS reader of choice bef… Read More

Seeing the King of the Blues Read More

I don’t know what this song means, but it is awesome Read More

Favorite new song for February Read More

Pocket Gems Holiday Party 2013 by Set Theory on Mixcloud Read More

“The text contains especially lengthy tangential descriptions of the dishes that appear at feasts of nobility. You are unable to extract any useful information.” - The descriptio… Read More

I started attempting to keep track of all the games I’ve been playing each year - it ends up adding up to a lot! You gotta stay current, ya know? Obviously, I didn’t play all of… Read More

Another year, another set of books. My list from 2014 is here. Favorite books The Night’s Dawn Trilogy by Peter HamiltonThe Reality Dysfunction (The Night’s Dawn)The Neutronium… Read More

Or, who is this game for?(Originally published on Medium)I have been playing an awful lot of Overwatch lately. I was fortunate enough to be invited into the closed beta, which marks the one… Read More

Reading Benedict Evan’s post on manual curation reminded me a lot of what has been happening on Steam over the past year with the ridiculous explosion of new titles. It seems that Valv… Read More