I just launched into a new series of articles over at The Escapist. The plan is to sit in the crossroads of games and fiction and toss around a few Molotov cocktails to see what bursts into flames. Having written more than a few games, novels, and gaming novels over the decades, I’m curious to find out. In this month’s …
Booklife on Hite
Over at Booklife, Jeremy Jones interviews Ken Hite about two of his favorite topics: Cthulhu and creativity. The article includes kind quotes about Ken from Will Hindmarch and me. (Since Ken let me crash in his guest room last weekend during C2E2, it was the least I could do.) It’s a fun article that captures those specific aspects of Ken’s …
Quiet Storytellers
I just posted “Quiet, Too Quiet,” my latest piece for Storytellers Unplugged. In it, I talk about why I haven’t been posting too much over there lately, which is the same reason you might see some large gaps in time around here every now and then too. Check it out, and try to be as understanding as you can. Then …
Producer Too
Looks like my credit as a producer on the Brave New World: Revolutions film finally cropped up on IMDb.com. I spent a good deal of C2E2 hanging around with some of the Reactor 88 Studios guys, and things are coming together. Speaking of which, it turns out there’s now an embeddable YouTube version of the Brave New World: Revolutions trailer. …
Music from College: Steven Mark and Ronan Lynch
The music of a couple college pals turned musicians cropped up this week. Back in 2006, I revealed that I’d borrowed the name Ronan Lynch – the main hero of Deadlands – from an Irish exchange student I’d met at the University of Michigan. Ronan had worked as a journalist for a while but had moved to Germany to take …
New Makeshift Prodigy Album Out
Makeshift Prodigy – the band that played a fantastic set at the Brave New World: Revolution teaser trailer debut at last year’s Gen Con – released its second album today: Mathematica. You can listen to the whole album for free online, or you can buy a CD for $5. If you’d rather download it, it’s available in a stunning variety …
Conduit 2 Coming This Fall
This week, Sega spilled the news that my friends at High Voltage Software plan to release Conduit 2 – a sequel to last year’s The Conduit, an FPS for the Wii – this fall. I helped develop the story for this game about a year back, before the original game debuted, and I’m thrilled that it’s finally been announced. Just wait …
The 100 Best Games Breakdowns
Family Games: The 100 Best should be on shelves Real Soon Now, I’m told. To hold you over for this smorgasbord of essays, check out Alan De Smet’s stunning and thorough breakdowns of both this book and its predecessor, Hobby Games: The 100 Best. Alan goes over the books in terms of writers, designers, and publishers to see who’s inspired …
Blurbs: Jim Lee
If you’ve read a comic in the last 20+ years, you should already know Jim Lee. As an artist, he defined the look of the X-Men in the early ’90s. His X-Men #1 (written by Chris Claremont) is still the best-selling comic book of all time, having racked up 8 million copies in print. He parlayed that into becoming one …
Geek.Kon Guest
The fine folks at Geek.Kon have announced that I’ll be a guest again at their show this year. I had a great time with them last year and agreed to join them again. The line-up of my fellow guests so far includes Bill Bodden and Aaron Pavao, both of whom were there last year, so it’ll be like getting the …
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