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More Crash for Charity

May 1, 2013 | 3 Comments

Crash super fan Matt Wallace is auctioning off various Crash Bandicoot swag for charity on e-bay…

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My first dev unit looked more or less like this

PS2 Memory Lane

April 25, 2013 | 5 Comments

My first PS2 glimpse was hardly typical. In the spring of 1999, I had to go down to LAX and claim my prototype unit…

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The Last of Us – Red Band

April 3, 2013 | 9 Comments

April brings us The Last of Us two minute red band trailer… awesome…

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Crash Valentines

February 14, 2013 | 13 Comments

In honor of Valentines, I share with you both a cute fan pic, courtesy of die hard fan Daisy Parker, and fan Aaron White’s latest stop motion fan film…

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The Last of Us – Zombie Time

February 5, 2013 | 14 Comments

Yes I know, they’re “infected”, but name change or no, it’s still Zombie Time!

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WOW Endgames – Mists of Pandaria

January 11, 2013 | 46 Comments

My epic survey of World of Warcraft endgames concludes with a detailed analysis of Mists of Pandaria…

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Detailed and Colorful - but most important fun

Crash Live Action Tribute

December 12, 2012 | 16 Comments

A fun “live action” Crash Bandicoot tribute film by 18 year-old filmmaker Mat Hill…

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Game Shop Crash

December 2, 2012 | 5 Comments

Game Shop is a cute little episodic SitCom that takes place in a mall video game store. Episode six is all about none other than Crash Bandicoot!

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WOW Endgames – Cataclysm

November 28, 2012 | 18 Comments

Blizzard, never afraid to shake things up, literally rocked the whole vanilla world of Azeroth and rebuilt not only the endgame but the rest of the game as well…

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Ony had quite the capricious nature.

World of Warcraft 8th Anniversary

November 20, 2012 | 4 Comments

Blizzard released this cool 8 year anniversary video, which is sort of a walk down memory lane. Given that I’ve been writing up my giant endgame comparison post series, I thought it apropos…

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WOW Endgames – Lich King

November 14, 2012 | 13 Comments

By the end of Lich King, nearly all the major mechanics that Blizzard introduced during the course of WOW evolution had come into play: Badges, the dungeon finder, dailies, reputation hubs, tier acceleration, split difficulties, split raid sizes, profession currencies, separate pvp/pve tracks, achievements, and more…

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WOW Endgames – Burning Crusade

November 7, 2012 | 9 Comments

In many ways, The Burning Crusade was my favorite endgame. Not only was it fun (and hard), but it was a time of heavy design experimentation where the Fel Reaver’s share of new gameplay ideas were introduced…

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This is pretty much what Rag did to the unprepared!

WOW Endgames – Vanilla

October 29, 2012 | 20 Comments

In this detailed post series, I discuss the evolution of the five World of Warcraft endgames from both a player and game design perspective. We start with Vanilla…

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Mists of Pandaria Leveling

October 15, 2012 | 2 Comments

I wasn’t originally going to play Mists of Pandaria, but once I zoned into the gorgeous Jade Forest it was hard to stop…

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Jak & Daxter Q&A

September 12, 2012 | 28 Comments

A series of questions and answers about the origin of Jak & Daxter…

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The Last of Us – 15 min of Gameplay

September 8, 2012 | 10 Comments

Fifteen minutes of official gameplay footage…

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The Last of Us – August Teaser

August 15, 2012 | 10 Comments

August arrives, and with it another teaser. This continues that cool creepy vibe driven by the bluegrass soundtrack.

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Video Games, Novels, and Ideas

August 1, 2012 | 14 Comments

Since I’ve created thirteen video games and written two novels I’m often asked how the process compares between the two. This is a complex topic, but here goes one stab at it, focusing on the generation of the idea. The…

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Crash Bandicoot Fan Film

July 27, 2012 | 10 Comments

One of Crash’s more dedicated fans used the action figure toys to create this crazy little stop motion fan film set in the Crash Universe…

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Diablo 3 – The Infernal Barbarian

July 6, 2012 | 3 Comments

Life for the Barbarian in Diablo 3 Inferno mode is brutal. Close in, you have to take the hits, and the hits are hard…

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