Author: Nelson Williams

There are terrible, terrible flaws in the retail model for game companies, especially independent studios who have to compete for shelf space against the likes of Sony and EA and their massive marketing powers. Stardock, one of...

The greatest barrier of entry to new gamers is often the very thing that allows gaming in the first place; the controller. Look at your Xbox or PS3 controller. It’s got around eight buttons in different places, a thumbpad,...

A while back, I was introduced to war quilts, big quilts made of the images that surround the people in countries at war. Pictures of helicopters, machineguns, grenades, and soldiers, woven into the fabric. Weaving was the art...

Video games have been part of the classroom for a while, but never in a real leading role as part of the educational curriculum. As an experiment to change that, Valve has adjusted their Steam client to be school-friendly,...

World of Warplanes is the sequel to Wargaming.net’s highly successful World of Tanks. The idea here is a PVP military flight sim with arcade controls, and it looks like they pulled it off. Check out this article for a...