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July 2, 2010

There are no Blown Calls in Football

On World Cup officiating and the nature of Soccer

The topic of World Cup officiating came up in the comments on my recent Gamasutra column. I offered some thoughts there, but given the fact that the quarter final matches will start up today, it seemed worth rescuing those thoughts from the noise of web page comments. Specifically, I've been ...

June 30, 2010

Plumbing the Depths

On the familiar and the unfamiliar in games. From my "Persuasive Games" column at Gamasutra.

August 9, 2008

Ordinary Olympians

Why athletic excellence alone cannot be appreciated

My sister-in-law Susannah is a world-class gymnast. Despite the fact that her event, tumbling, is much, much more atheletic and arresting than plain old artistic gymnastics, it didn't make the cut even for exhibition at the Beijing games. That may have something to do with China's weak performance in the sport. ...

May 28, 2008

Zimmer Base Ball and Cigars

115 years of sports game adaptation

I have an interest in game adaptation, something that we normally think of only as it relates to film-to-game licensing. In our forthcoming book on the Atari VCS, Nick Montfort and I also discuss another kind of videogame adaptation that was once its primary form: from arcade coin-ops to home ...