Monthly Archives: April 2009

Chocolate in the Peanut Butter

Over the last week or two, I found a new RPG to play. It’s called MLB 09: The Show. How, you ask, is a base­ball sim­u­la­tion an RPG? Well, the game offers a mode called “Road to the Show” in which you make up a char­ac­ter, adjust sta­tis­tics, go into dun­geons sta­di­ums, hit, throw, run, gain …

April 18, 2009 – 8:54 am | By David Eckelberry | Posted in Game Criticism | Tagged |

Undying Star Wars

What­ever you think of the pre­quel films (the deter­mi­nant seems to be how old you are), they did some­thing that was nec­es­sary for the brand, intro­duc­ing Star Wars to a new gen­er­a­tion of fans. Phan­tom Men­ace is about ten years old now, and Revenge of the Sith four years. The next thing (not the rumored next …

April 7, 2009 – 10:40 pm | By David Eckelberry | Posted in Game Industry | Tagged , |

Boys vs. Girls

If you haven’t kept up with the lat­est post-GDC tem­pest (and really, why would you?), it starts and ends with game critic Heather Chap­lin giv­ing a rant dur­ing the rant round­table at GDC. Sum­mary here. I didn’t attend this one, and I don’t really regret miss­ing it. Short ver­sion: We devel­op­ers are all stunted ado­les­cents …

April 2, 2009 – 1:38 pm | By David Eckelberry | Posted in Game Journalism | Tagged |