1985. What a year. The Nintendo Entertainment System debuted in the U.S. to near immediate success. What American video game makers had abandoned as a dead market, Japanese video game companies picked up and revitalized. … [Read more...]
"The awful thing about life is, everyone has their reasons." It was true in Jean Renoir's The Rules of the Game and it's true in learning a new language. People everywhere would love to learn a language "just because" or … [Read more...]
In the west, we like our media kingpins to be creative. And not just creative on a few things in their lives, but visionary geniuses we can laud as people worth worshiping. Walt Disney and Jim Henson are two great … [Read more...]
Some people like playing video games. Other prefer their video games to play themselves, giving birth to the fad of hacking Super Mario World levels that move Mario to the end without any player input required. Still, … [Read more...]
Quick, who’s the man who started the golden age of arcade video games? Who created gaming’s first killer app? Who created a new genre of games, and inspired the Mario-making Miyamoto and Konami’s Kojima? Do you give up, or … [Read more...]
Square Enix has been kind of lousy for a while now, but finally the company's CEO Yoichi Wada is stepping down. He's been steering the company for over a decade, and in my opinion Square/Square Enix was much better off … [Read more...]