A dog starved at his master’s gate Predicts the ruin of the state. – William Blake In 2010 we saw human civilization take further steps towards it own destruction. We saw the rapid destruction of democratic rights: from the persecution of Wikileaks to the use of military law to stop …
I’ve been bugging Gregory Weir to play Borderlands for a while now. There’s a reason for this, apart from my insuppressable urge to be annoying: Borderlands is almost certainly the best game I’ve played in a long time. It’s so good, in fact, that I’d like to write a long …
The first Wikileaks Stories game is out, and it couldn’t be a better one. The radical artists’ collective La Molleindustria, well-known for works like Every day the same dream and Oiligarchy, have released Leaky World: a playable theory. Leaky World is an excellent demonstration of the ability of the interactive …
That song says everything that needs to be said. As for us, we’ll be listening to “Freddy the Red Brained Mi-Go” and waiting for Satan to come down the chimney and bring us a chocolate squid. Or something like that.
My new Escapist article is up, and this one is very personal. It’s the complicated, bitter, glorious, silly and entirely strange history of Phenomenon 32. The Game That Ate The Earth. And it did. Comments, shares, retweets and musical renditions are welcome. But be nice. Writing this was extremely difficult.
I’m currently too busy making my Wikileaks Stories game to write a detailed post about my problems with feminism as an academic, political and philosophical movement. This is a very complicated topic to write about, primarily because people of all sorts are apt to translate “I am opposed to feminism” …
So, you may have been wondering what’s happening with The Urthona Revolution. The answer is nothing and everything. Let me explain. The Urthona Revolution started out as a game. Then I realized that, at the time, I couldn’t pull it off properly. Then, years later, inspired by A Stray To …
The project begun by Gnome’s Lair (with some help from me) now has its official website: http://www.wikileaks-stories.com I would like to urge you to join us, either by making games yourself or by letting people know about this project. In the struggle for democracy (one that is too easily forgotten …
My first article for The Escapist is now available for your reading pleasure! Let your friends know. Tell your grandmother. Ask your cat to retweet it. Oh, and read it!
The poor fool who blew himself up in Sweden a couple of days ago apparently wrote this to the police: Now will your children, daughters and sisters die the same way our brothers and sisters die. The same useless, horrible way that leads only to more hatred and destruction and …
