The Moving Pixels Podcast Joins the League of Legends

The ever articulate Jorge Albor and game designer Matthew Gallant joined me this week to discuss my current addiction, League of Legends.

I love the game. I put up with its community.

We have a host of things that we discuss about it, though, such as games as sports, its business model, and its general design.

You can find that discussion here:

The Moving Pixels Podcast Joins the League of Legends

God, The Game Designer

I wrote a piece partly inspired by a re-reading of Genesis and partly by a memory of an essay over at Gamasutra. The good folks at Christ and Pop Culture were kind enough to publish it.

I love the splash image that they worked up for the article as well.

God, The Game Designer

Lana Del Rey's “Video Games” and, Well, Video Games

More "curmudgeonly old guy" thoughts on gaming culture and the mainstream.

"In my day, geeks were geeks and bad boys were bad boys."

Del Rey gets her bad boy in my geek. Still surprisingly weird to me, but maybe not to anyone under 30.

Lana Del Rey's “Video Games” and, Well, Video Games

Quarrel Is Scrabble Meets Risk

I want to like Quarrel.

I don't like Quarrel.

Quarrel Is Scrabble Meets Risk

Big Games and Little Boys

Probably no one is going to really read this one.

A little too personal maybe, but sometimes you have to write something a little wistful, I think.

Big Games and Little Boys

Moving Pixels Podcast: Grand Theft Stupid?

I love me an open-world, crime game. But I don't love Saints Row: The Third so much. Its antics fell flat for me, but it seems to have hit a sweet a sweet spot for my fellow Moving Pixels podcasters, Rick Dakan and Nick Dinicola.

One man's stupid is another man's comedy gold?

Moving Pixels Podcast: Grand Theft Stupid?

The Best Games of 2011

We did kind of spoil this list on our Game of the Year Edition podcast.

Mike Schiller was kind enough to write the intro text and a bunch of our writers contributed to the blurbs.

But here it finally is (check the link to the podcast, though, if you want to hear some of the discussion about how the list came about):

The Best Games of 2011