In this first episode, we give you a series of e-mails between Dan Kaszor and I which spawned during the week after the events of E3, about current state of Episodic games and digital distribution. Enjoy.

When playing Mass Effect, you had the option of going to a series of random planets and preforming side missions. These missions were never of the quality of the main missions (either in story, visual fidelity, level design or gameplay ingenuity), yet they gave the game world a sense of bredth and depth that the core game levels did not provide. They were essentially the matte painting behind a movie set changing what you see from a sound stage to an amazing vista.... Keep Reading

Sound has always an integral part of the gamer experience: from the reassuring ‘boop’ of a pong hit to the orchestrated score of Halo 3, there’s always been an ample musical backing to heighten gaming’s greatest moments. With that in mind, it’s no surprise that plenty of musicians who grew up with gaming love paying tribute to videogame music in one way or another. Rock band, this ain’t.... Keep Reading