Last week I served as guest editor at popular games and game culture blog Kotaku All in all, I wrote 45 articles at Kotaku, which I’ve now linked below. I haven’t even tried to read all the comments on those threads though. I had a great time doing it and I’m really grateful that Brian Crecente extended the invitation.


Ian Bogost Signing On

$8.25m for Health Games Research

Jack LaLanne Physical Conditioning

Ad-Supported Casual Games

Media Illiteracy and the SonicJihad Debacle

OLPC SimCity to allow simulation mods

Videogames Guide for Parents offers reviews, not advice

Military Videogames, circa 1981

Airport, Credit, Treacle

The First Film License

Heel, Rogue Ron Paul Supporters

New Anthology on Player Experiences

Weird ARG Mail Not Welcome

Arcade Interactive Fiction

Early Advergames, part I

Yelling in NYC

Tale of Tales

In-Game Adverturtles

Will Wright on Designing Simulation Interfaces

Early Advergames, part II

To Kongregate or not to Kongregate

The History of Matching Tile Games

Against Homebrew

Microsoft Announces Simulation Platform

Train Cramming

Koinup, the Social Network for Game Crap

How Complex Controllers Ruined Everything

Early Advergames, part III

iD Consummates Mobile Marriage

Metagame, a Gameshow of Videogame Opinions

Scratch Asteroid to Win

SimCity Societies More Green Than Gore?

Retro Terrorism, part I

Serious Games at MIT

To Have Your Code and Eat It

News University Games

Early Advergames, part IV

Singing the Blu-Rays

Journey Escape and Music Games

Kaiser Permanente’s Health Game Flatlines

Knight Rider Lives Too?

Atari Porn Games

Retro Terrorism, part II

The Trauma of Cosplay

Farewell Kotaku

published November 19, 2007