I’ve been busy since the holidays catching up and preparing for the new term, which makes this the requisite occasional “I haven’t posted on the blog” blog post. Since I’ve been reduced to such self-referential shame, I figured I might as well take things even further and offer my readers a massive dump of recentish press about me.
For starters, A Slow Year appeared in the October issue of Eurogamer, and Technologizer called it one of 3 Indie Games to Watch For. Over at Kotaku, Stephen Totilo wrote a lengthy piece about the game, “What if a video game was poetry?”. And French newspaper Liberation covered the game on their Ecrans site.
On the Newsgames front, Nova Magazine (the Italian version) ran coverage of it in the October issue (on page 22, sorry I don’t have a scan). Editor & Publisher published a piece on the concept and the book. Alyssa Abkowitz wrote a review of the book in the Columbia Journalism Review, and Micahel Humphrey did too at Forbes. Oh, and this weekend the CBC radio show Spark aired my interview with them about Newsgames.
In more bovine pastures, Brendan Sinclair wrote a piece for Gamespot on Social Game Anxiety in which Cow Clicker is a topic of discussion. Even though I mentioned it before, I’ll repeat that the game appeared on two of Gamasutra’s year end lists, Top 5 Biggest Controversies and Top 5 Cult Games. And I’ll likewise repeat that Switched.com named my essay on Cow Clicker among the top 15 technology writing of 2010.
All right, enough of that. I’ll be back to more meaningful, externally-focused writing soon enough. For now, I’m going to go watch the snow fall.