While our editor enjoys some time off, our publisher, Alexander Macris, has stepped up to give his thoughts on the advertising added to the issue 12.
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In 1993, Interplay released BARIS, a space race simulation with incredible detail. Since that time, serious space exploration games have all but vanished. Allen Varney looks at why Race Into Space went to the Moon and then to oblivion.
Sometimes there is a retail product so inspiring that the lack of an interactive title is very apparent. Kris Naudus explores bringing real American Girls to a virtual world.
Sequel after sequel, games continually increase in their complexity until their conventions are so arcane that only a longtime player can understand them. John Tynes looks at why this increasing complexity is a bad thing in this edition of The Contrarian.
Back in 2002, Introversion launched Uplink, a cyberpunk sleeper hit based on computer hacking. Joe Blancato reveals his dream, that someday this revered single-player experience be brought to life in the massively multiplayer arena.
There are those games that ruin your life, but you love them for doing it. Greg Tito relates one of those personal experiences, how creating a future history in Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri was more satisfying than writing his own.
