Recent content by Nick Halme

I wasn't on Brian's team, but working at Relic I've heard him speak, and you would see him around and all that. It was enough to get an idea of his character. I just want to say thanks to everyone for supporting Brian's family -- even a dollar helps. He was a stand up guy, and all of you are...

Loaded and Ready to Run LoadingReadyRun has been creating comedy since before this console generation began and YouTube was a twinkle in anyone's eye. Nick Halme travelled to Victoria, British Columbia to visit with Graham, Paul and the rest of the gang to find out just what makes the LRR...

Every Game Is the End of the World The romance of the breakdown of society that Armageddon provides is that the social order would be reset and the downtrodden could become heroes. Nick Halme posits that each game that we play creates our own private apocalypse. Read Full Article

@thiosk Well, now I look like a dunce, don't I? I suppose I was 14 then, I was 12 when I joined the clan...It all seems like a century ago anyways!

@jericu Please do! I believe the nature of first-person shooters makes it easier to recall tense situations and personal feats of glory. But as you can see there have been some great Starcraft posts, a CoH story, and even a Warhammer 40k tabletop post, not to mention Shawn Elliott's...

First-Person Gaming The only thing more epic than the stories games tell are the ones we tell about them. Read Full Article

@JLrep Right; and gaming *did* have all those games, rather than one singular "masterpiece". I think the fact that we regard them as we do already (and not just twenty years from now) is a testament to that. The reason my angle is that all of these games are the equivalent to CK (and not...

Gaming's Prismatic Citizen Kane Gaming won't ever have its own singular, massive Citizen Kane - it'll just have a bunch of little ones. Read Full Article

Listening to Non-Designers Some of the best advice out of GDC Canada came from non-game designers. Read Full Article

Speaking from personal experience, most people who make games do not like games. Or at least, they loathe the games they work on. In some cases they won't even play their own game. It's not uncommon and it doesn't seem to effect the quality of games, but it is indeed very strange...

I just picked up a science fiction novel called The Forever War. It was written in the early seventies by a Vietnam veteran and is considered to be a contemporary of Starship Troopers (the novel being much more controversial and containing none of the cheeseball antics of the movies). The...

Great article, I was completely unaware that this sort of thing was going on. I'm just not sure I see the point of protesting in a deathmatch game -- in taking up player slots and in effect ruining the game, where is the message of protest? It seems to me that griefing a game like this does...

Toy Soldiering What's true for children is still true for adults: Playing soldier is fun. Read Full Article

What?s in a Game? Technology is changing, the game audience is changing -- shouldn't our definition of what a "game" is be changing, too? Read Full Article

Guest Columnist: Behind the Curtain Games tend to come apart at the seams if you don't play them the way you're supposed to, but some of the most enjoyable games are the ones that break in entertaining ways. Read Full Article