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The World’s Best Free-to-Play Games
The world has really opened up for gamers these past few years. Free-to-play games offer all the basics for free: you deliver the cash (if needed) once you’re enchanted, when you’ve had the chance to...
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How Stories Are Told in Games
Storytelling has been fundamental to human experience for thousands of years (probably the earliest form of entertainment), and yet, novel methods to tell a great story emerge all the time. From books...
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2014 Mobile Gaming Predictions
The new year is an excellent time to ponder the future, and mobile devices are one of the most exciting areas of developing technology. In this article, I take a look at a variety of predictions for...
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2013 Gamers Survey Results: Demographics, Platforms and Smartphone Use
The researchers here at Big Fish created a survey to better understand gamers in the U.S. We got over 1000 responses, which gave us some powerful insight into the demographics and habits/practices of...
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Learning to Draw Game Environments
In a recent post I provided an outline for learning to draw video game characters. In this article I will cover game environments and how to conceptualize and draw them. Game environments involve a...
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Gamer Fashion and Lifestyle Options
One thing I have learned about gamers is that they love to proclaim their passions just about any way they can. The great thing about the modern age is that choices abound like never before and they...
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Exploring the Depths of Minecraft
A friend of mine has a 10 year old boy who is a MAJOR Minecraft fan, so I interviewed her about his obsession and how she feels about it. For those of you who aren’t familiar with this clever...
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If you’ve ever read the Everquest or World of Warcraft Widows mailing lists (a bit of a guilty pleasure), you’d think that the road to nowhere good (really fast) has an online role-playing game at...
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Dreaming of the Perfect Role Playing Game
After spending a bit of time playing World of Warcraft together a few years back, colleague Gordon Calleja and I had a discussion by phone about how we felt about it. We were impressed with the...
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Building a Better Brain, One Game at a Time
Do you have a New Year’s resolution to improve your brain’s performance? If so, playing more games might just be the answer! In a previous article I provided an overview of the types of skills we...
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