Fourth highest selling console ever. Nintendo having two of the top four slots…

Discussion of this article on other sites has been awful, so I’m interested to see if Beehaw has any thoughts. The book looks really cool, it’s more tempting than a lot of the more recent books that Wizards has released…

Virtual worlds are delicate things and they can vanish with hardly a trace. You can archive the software, but a dead world can only tell you so much. It’s just as important to document how people spent their time within it. …

[A phrase like] “without strong personalities, games don’t get made” is the exact kind of language that’s used to defend the abuse of people in these positions. But the absurdity is that, certainly in these cases, this preference for strong personalities has been a disaster…

The game’s final chapter on the border world Xen […] would lay the stage for the team’s greatest challenge. Using all they learned from recreating Half-Life, they would attempt to redesign Xen for the modern first-person player while bridging the narrative with its groundbreaking sequel…

I bought the game about a month ago, played it for about an hour, was overwhelmed and confused and rage quit. …