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Once Upon A Time

Once Upon A Time

Once Upon A Time

Finding Meaning in Modern Warfare

Jesse Stern doesn’t look like I expect. I expected the writer of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Modern Warfare 2 and the ...
By Jack Baldwin Legacy AuthorJanuary 12, 2010
Once Upon A Time

The Stories We Tell Ourselves

Gaming came to me later in life than most. My parents, believing that the Nintendo would convert my brain into rotting turkey fat, ...
By Dietrich Stogner Legacy AuthorJanuary 12, 2010
Once Upon A Time

Gordon Freeman, Private Eye

The story of the Half-Life series is one of most consistently praised, discussed and analyzed narratives in gaming history. Forums, wikis and fansites ...
By Craig Owens Legacy AuthorJanuary 12, 2010
Once Upon A Time

Your Job Is to Fall In Love

Your job, he said, is to fall in love. Everything else is just detail. It wasn’t what I expected to hear. The rest ...
By Colin Rowsell Legacy AuthorJanuary 12, 2010
Once Upon A Time

You Can’t Kill Batman

“Where do you get your ideas?” The question, asked by innocent bystanders, well-meaning associates and the idly curious alike, plagues and troubles writers ...
By Russ Pitts Legacy AuthorNovember 6, 2007
Once Upon A Time

Who’s In the Driver’s Seat?

If there is one thing every writer knows, it’s that good stories are about characters. And every game designer knows that if games ...
By Marty M. O'Hale Legacy AuthorNovember 6, 2007
Once Upon A Time

The Ending Has Not Yet Been Written

“The reader is entertained by the journey of another, but the writer is the changer of worlds.”– D’ni Proverb Deep in the New ...
By Nathaniel Berens Legacy AuthorNovember 6, 2007
Once Upon A Time

Slouching Toward Black Mesa

Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the ...
By Tom Rhodes Legacy AuthorNovember 6, 2007
Once Upon A Time

Face Job

“Why make videogames when you can make art?” David Cage asks, as I visit him at Quantic Dream headquarters on Boulevard Davout in ...
By Sam Sundberg Legacy AuthorNovember 6, 2007
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