The scene was a familiar one: Tom Cruise using his Matt Lauer-lecturing tone to question Jack Nicholson about events on his military base. ...

On screen, my module – the second I’ve created with the Aurora toolset for Neverwinter Nights – is finally proceeding smoothly. Jon is ...

“Hey, dude,” my friend Shawn said. “Wanna be a GM in UO?” “Does the Pope crap in the woods?” I answered jubilantly. It ...

I was almost a world-famous game designer. Well, world famous might be a bit of a stretch. “Certain-parts-of-the-Internet” famous might be more accurate. ...

I didn’t know it at the time, but in late February 2004, I was Rick Jones. There’s probably tens of thousands of Rick ...

Just last night a gamer said to me: “Half-Life 2 – is it as good as they say?” “Oh yes indeed,” I replied. ...

There’s Cinderella with her gown up over her face, glass slippers in the air and Prince Charming … well, hang on a second. ...

In the beginning, developers and players were the same, hacking away on academic networks for the entertainment of their peers. The advent of ...