The game industry is a soap opera sometimes. It can be fun to watch, it can be depressing to watch, it can be a lot of other things. Whatever it is, it’s emotional. The latest controversy is with Quest Online and Alganon–David Allen was fired (you might remember a similar episode with Artifact Entertainment and Horizons) and Derek Smart (controversial himself) has replaced him. It’s rather crazy. I’d just go ahead and read Smart’s post if you want to know what’s going on there. The far more depressing controversy recently was with Activision. Rather than comment on it, I’ll just lead you to Broken Toys. Wow, on both counts.

Update: The Saga Continues…

2010 is underway, so it’s time for me to make a few predictions about the MMO industry this year. I’m not going to make a ton of predictions, but I will try to make them fairly specific and measurable. Without further ado, my predictions are beyond the break. Continue Reading »

Before I go into any 2010 predictions, let’s take a look at my predictions from last year. I diverged from my tradition of safe bets, and went with more specific predictions (and many more of them) than ever before. How’d I do? Read beyond the break. Continue Reading »

A friend of mine here at 38 Studios just launched an iPhone/iPod touch game. It’s called Keep Defenders, and is described on the site as: “Keep Defenders is a highly addictive, fast paced real-time combat game. The object of Keep Defenders is to defend your keep as waves of enemy soldiers attack from all directions. If your keep is destroyed or you lose all of your units, you have been defeated. Use your spoils to hire reinforcements and turn back your attackers!” It’s pretty darn fun, so give it a go! Check out the video after the jump. Continue Reading »

This month’s Boston Post Mortem has a very special speaker! Jamie Gotch, programmer at 38 Studios and one of the developers of the award-winning iPhone game, Fieldrunners, will be talking about his game. I’ll see if I can roll out with the wife to support the big jerk. This month’s meeting is tomorrow (Tuesday, March 10, 2009) at 7:00PM and will take place at The Skellig in Waltham. More info can be found on the Boston Post Mortem website.