Even QBs Thin Slice
From today’s NYT Football for Smarties guide, a description of what quarterbacks are doing during the 3.5 seconds they have after the snap to throw the ball. Addressing the idea that a quarterback is...
View ArticleSimple Fun: Nintendo Acela Awesomeness
Riding to and from Washington on the Acela yesterday, we were only able to find seats in the quiet car. At 5:45 in the morning, I reminded my colleagues to bring their DSes so we could play some...
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TimeOut Azeroth: Social Calendar in WoW
World of Warcraft‘s newest “Echoes of Doom” patch was a big one sizewise. Getting ready for the “Lich King” expansion pack, probably. (This expansion pack will add a new world and the possibility of...
View ArticleSimplest good game ever
Mattel’s electronic football game might be the simplest great game I’ve played. When I posted this to flickr, someone reminded me that the game had a click that got faster and more menacing the longer...
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MYST on iPhone: A lesson in immersion
Been playing MYST on the iPhone and having fond memories, renewed admiration for the game, and a useful sense of disappointment. Fond Memories I loved MYST when it came out. It was a revelation — a...
View ArticleNokia N-Gage — humanizing digital, making games human and fun
Nice concept around Nokia’s (underrated) N-Gage platform. For years, their creative has been trying to humanize games and transform “gaming” (a word that dorkifies and marginalizes the product) into...
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Like Christmas Morning: The new Dan Brown
Love this email I just got from Amazon: Full disclosure: I get quite a kick out of the Dan Brown oeuvre, despite the horrible writing. It’s like the old computer adventure games made into a book....
View Articlenerdy WoW meme
In general, I think most game players don’t follow stories closely, but there are some for whom the game story is their main dose of fiction: /via Getner
View ArticleEmbrace Complexity: Master Miyamoto tells us to
The New Yorker of December 20 has a profile of Shigero Miyamoto, the creator of the Mario Brothers and Zelda universes and a key player in the creation of the Wii (and Wii Sport and, if I had to guess...
View ArticleKarpov on Kasparov on Karpov
Thanks to 3QD for the video pairing below. The Kasparov-Karpov rally was a big part of my teens. As a 7 year old, when Bobby Fischer was goofily charming, the best chess player in history, and sane, he...
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