Category Archives: North Carolina
From #SxSWi: Gigg
SxSW Interactive always includes launches of amazing new apps (and, yeah, some ridiculous ones, but let’s not talk about that). With Gigg‘s new music app, users can make and share cute combinations of music, song lyrics, videos, and pictures. Choose … Continue reading
Indie Game Blog Carnival #1
Hello everyone! I’m at SxSW right now, and I’m either listening to an amazing session, drinking with friends, or completely lost on the complete opposite side of where I mean to be going. (That is how conferences go for me.) … Continue reading
Not Quite Legendary ‘Legend Online’
Legend Online is the second game I’ve reviewed over at GiN. My editor, Marie, assigned me the game and also sent me a very generous credit in Diamonds, the game’s premium currency, from the game’s publicist. But when I looked … Continue reading
Go Miss Your Flight, Because You Need A Time Machine
There’s kind of a trend for writing and talking about how great events used to be, because the only thing cooler than being at an event is being in the middle of things while being unimpressed by it. Like being … Continue reading
Book Review: ‘The Wives of Los Alamos’
The Wives of Los Alamos is out today, and I’ve reviewed it over at Yahoo. TaraShea Nesbit’s novel The Wives of Los Alamos is told in first-person plural, and yet it never seems like an experiment in a creative writing … Continue reading
Revisited Game Review: Women’s Murder Club
Originally written for ThumbGods, a coupe years ago, but I recently dug out my DS for visiting some old favorites. James Patterson’s Women’s Murder Club has been a successful series of novels, a TV show and a series of casual mystery PC games before … Continue reading
Failing The Turing Test
A copy-paste of my chat with Delta Airlines It went on like that for a while, while I tried to handle my frustration by imagining the conversation as a moment in text-based Adventure, trying endless variations on Open door … Continue reading
Games & Capitalism
IndieCade was surrounded with snow-related disasters, but one of the nice effects of that is Paolo Pedercini’s (from Molleindustria) talk was given remotely, and it’s available to watch online here: Videogames and the Spirit of Capitalism from paolo pedercini on … Continue reading
The Wife, The Maid, and The Mistress
The lives of three women collide in this pulpy 1930’s reimagining of the historical disappearance of Justice Joseph Crater. Justice Joseph Crater disappeared in 1930, leaving behind debts, bribery allegations, and powerful “friends” in high and low places, an angry … Continue reading
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