Games will be education
One day computer games will largely replace teachers for most education and all students will be educated way beyond our wildest dreams. And I don’t mean games as in Grand Theft Auto. […]
Opinion
Are games funny enough?
I live near Stratford-upon-Avon, home of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and I’ve been to see very many plays there over the years. And the peculiar thing is that most productions […]
The big problem
More than 25 years ago a new sort of electronic device appeared on the scene: The home computer. And the demographic that owned these was the adolescent and immediately post-adolescent […]
Episodic content is good for you
Joseph Conrad, Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles Dickens are famous authors of novels in the English language. But they have more than that in common because all three wrote episodically […]
Computer games are better than books
I remember several years ago Prince Charles said that children should stop playing computer games and read a good book instead. This was very widely reported in the Fox News/Daily […]
Web 2.0 and the games industry ostriches
Let’s start with an executive (ie simplified) summary for those at the back who haven’t kept up. Web 1.0 ended in the dotcom bust because it was difficult to monetise […]
Games are art
Someone I have never heard of before, Roger Ebert, has been making a big splash saying that games are not art. In my opinion he is wrong. What is or […]