Category: Video Games

2020 UPDATE – Well as it turns out the newly relaunched EGM I mentioned in this article was only good for a few issues. The folks over at area5.tv are still there, however, having received my backing for their video game art and culture documentary…Read on!Game Press Appreciation – 1up Show Fan-Made Box Set

The video game expert is dead. He died of gluttony. And from his ashes will rise new breeds of journalists: the specialist, the elite critic, and the business pundit. Covering every video game is no longer possible. The old guard of gaming press is gone.…Read on!The Death of the Video Game Expert

There are all kinds of gamers.  There are gamers who play Parker Brothers’ board games, and haven’t touched an electronic game at all.  There are gamers, like my mother-in-law, who play one electronic game in particular, the copy of Solitaire that came on their PC. …Read on!“Gamers” and Gamers

Steam Sales Before I was recently was gifted my first gaming-capable-PC in a while, I watched the development of Steam, Valve’s online gaming digital distribution service, from the outside, as a skeptic.  I am more of a game collector than most of the gamers I…Read on!Steam Sales, Jake Jabbs, and the Perceived Value of Intangible Items