by Will Hindmarch | Apr 11, 2012 | Conventions, Creativity, Events, Fan Culture, Horror, Play, Social Games
PAX East obliterated Jared Sorensen’s voice but he still had an event left to run. Players were counting on him. The convention schedule had the game session locked in. Sorensen, his voice already spent on conversations and events in the noisy convention venues,...
by Will Hindmarch | Oct 24, 2011 | Board Games, card games, Creativity, MMOs, RPGs, Social Games, Video Games
Chris Hardwick, he who founded The Nerdist empire (or, if not empire, then duchy) and hosts the likes of the Nerdist podcast and The Talking Dead, has a book coming out called, fittingly, The Nerdist Way. Hardwick’s also an occasional contributor to Wired (a...
by Jeff Tidball | May 19, 2011 | Social Games, Video Games
I haven’t been able to really get into the Dragon Age: Legends Facebook game, but having installed the game on my Facebook account, EA’s got my e-mail address, so they’re pushing info about it to my inbox on a daily basis. Yesterday, an announcement...
by Jeff Tidball | Mar 31, 2011 | Business, Social Games
Yesterday I read the most intelligent and least douchy thing I’ve ever read about making money from free-to-play games, in an interview with social game designer Brenda Brathwaite: Brathwaite explains [her studio’s] approach to monetization with a...
