Triple-A MMO Team Seeks Senior MMO Programmer If you’re an MMO programmer of the senior-ish variety, listen closely: our contacts have tipped us to a hot opportunity with a top company that logged more than 15 million registered players in three years. They’re working on a new, family-friendly AAA MMO title and obviously they know what they’re […]
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Game Writer Questions from Sheffield
A Virtual Game Writer Interview Game Writer Central received this request for a few words across the ocean, and I thought it might be of interest to all: I’m a student studying Internet & Business Technologies at Sheffield Hallam University and I’m currently in my final year. My final year project revolves around video game writing as […]
Game Writer Rundown: Skyrim
Thoughts on Bethseda’s Skyrim I rented the popular new RPG Skyrim last weekend and lost 2 days to it. This game is a GOTY contender and has garnered over 200 perfect scores from game writers. The usually reserved (and incisive) Eurogamer goes as far as calling it a “masterpiece.” I think it’s pretty good, although I’d […]
Gomez Airing This Weekend
Hello Indie Rock Fans It’s time for your sporadic pop culture injection. This weekend, one of Austin’s proudest cultural institutions, Austin City Limits (the show), is airing the Gomez taping that this humble game writer was fortunate enough to attend. Gomez, for those unaware, is a talented, long-lived, guitar-heavy ensemble from Ol’ Blighty. They got this […]
Game Writer Central Interview: Pinballz Arcade
Surviving in the Stand-Up Arcade Business by Game Writer Central‘s Michelle B. I’m over forty and female which I think is a bit unusual in the gaming industry itself. [I think you’d be surprised :) – Game Writer Guy] I do think female gamers are one of the fastest growing demographics for games and what […]
The Buggiest Game in Consoles
Nominating Resistance 3 As The Buggiest Console Game The buggiest game in consoles, at least in our eyes, has arrived, and it’s Resistance 3 for the PS3. There have been a lot of buggy console games, especially after standard-issue local storage made it acceptable for game publishers to burp out a buggy videogame and then […]
Gaming and Safe Sex
Game Writer Central Welcomes Michelle B. To Our Game Writing Team Michelle, our new game writer, will be making her first splash here soon with an interview of one of the owners at Pinballz, an independent videogame arcade that’s making a serious go of it in these tough times. In fact, Pinballz opened in November […]
The Videogaming Dentist
Siri Says: “Email Sent!”
Some Thoughts on Ballet Austin’s “Mozart Project”
This game writer was at the ballet last weekend. A bit of a change of pace from puttering around in the Battlefield 3 beta. And guess what? It was magnificent. Or at least the middle piece was, a collaboration between Austin composer Graham Reynolds and choreographer Stephen Mills called “Though the Earth Gives Way.” Set […]