Category Archives: North Carolina

Amity & Sorrow

New piece over on thalo about Peggy Riley’s amazing new novel, Amity & Sorrow. I don’t love every book I end up reviewing (AHEM), but I’d really recommend this one for lovely prose revealing a thoughtful and sometimes dark story.  Peggy … Continue reading

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Text-Based Space Opera in ‘Choice of the Star Captain’

I’ve talked a lot about text-based games like Heroes Rise, To The City of the Clouds, Choice of Romance, Choice of The Vampire, Choice of the Dragon, and now, I’ve got a new piece on Geek talking about Star Captain. Choice of the Star Captain … Continue reading

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Fiction and Family

“I found my extra copy of A Torn Page when I was packing,” I told Harold, “I think I might give it to your mom — she was asking me about my work, and a fiction anthology is probably better … Continue reading

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New York Gaming

While I was in Brooklyn, I went over to the NY Gaming demo at Microsoft, checked out the games my NYC neighbors are building, and wrote it up for Geek Magazine: New York Gaming tends towards electronic games, so  I … Continue reading

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North Carolina

In Chapel Hill, doing a little betatesting for the iOs build of Gemini Rue, and giggling.

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Lost, Revisited

Watching the first season of Lost again is like looking at photos of an old boyfriend. Everyone’s so young! Such great memories! So many laughs! I loved it so much! But… what the heck happened at the end?

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The Facebook Diet

New piece on Geek Magazine, in which I am thoroughly confused by a “Facebook humor” book: The Facebook Diet by Gemini Adams promises to highlight all the hilarious and strange things in the world of Facebook. I was excited to read this … Continue reading

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The Adventure Is Yours

Amazing old ad for D&D from one of Harold’s old comic books.

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Speaking Simlish

I play a lot of games. I also read about games, and think about games, and work on games, and write about games. Sometimes my game development work gets in the way of my games journalism, and my editor at Hardcore … Continue reading

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Zenonia Hates Me

New post on Zenonia 5 on Hardcore Droid: Zenonia 5, Gamevil’s latest installment in the Zenonia series, is a fantasy action RPG for Droid.  Players enter an engaging fantasy world, with charming characters, oddly adorable monsters to fight, an epic … Continue reading

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