Chris explores how he’s recently become jaded and the effects it has had on his perception of the industry.

What’s the Citizen Kane of video games? Are you nuts? Give me one sentence that defines what a video game is, encompassing all genres out there, and then we can start to talk about what the Citizen Kane of games is.

It was a long yet short weekend, and indeed it felt good.

I’m tired, but not exhausted. This must be remedied.

I don’t know what compelled me to sit through all of the Secret Girlfriend premiere, but it did get me thinking about designing a game based on falling in love.

If you put the work into it, Assassin’s Creed is perfectly capable of making you feel like an amalgamation of awesome, bad assery and righteousness. I like to call it Uberloaf. It’s like meatloaf, only made of uber.

In the holiday season of 2007, four games were released that brought a hammer to the boundaries of game narrative. Assassin’s Creed, Bioshock, Mass Effect and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. Today, Chris Cesarano analyzes how Assassin’s Creed challenged perceptions of game narrative.

What if the most tedious, mind-numbing tasks required you to perform a dance before being allowed to execute them successfully? Life would get pretty irritating. Well, it’s starting to happen with game design as well, where what should be a simple task is made into an annoying and frustrating game of Simon Says.

Denis Dyack makes claim that a number of console platforms are damaging to game studios, and that the future calls for a single platform. However, there is a lot of fault to be found in his argument.

A ‘Holy Grail’ can be many things to many different people. It’s that one item that everybody wants, but not everybody can have. It’s that crown jewel that would make any collection complete. Every collector has one, and Video Games are no exception. Luke Habib hasn’t found the Holy Grail of gaming, but he can document some of the more rare and sought after collectible items in Video Gaming in Part One of ‘Searching for the Holy Grail’.