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.

The piracy issue is going to be one that the game industry will struggle with forever, and game makers surely have the right to reap profits when they make a good product. But EA’s latest DRM measures takes things a few dozen steps too far and forces us to ask the question: are ill-thought-out anti-piracy measures actually ENCOURAGING theft?

What is next step, evolutionarily speaking, for the video-game player? Can it be expressed in the Spore Creature Creator? We sure hope so. Join us for an entirely unscientific and uneducational look at the GAMER OF TOMORROW.

Here is a top five list of singular visions in videogaming. Each of these games had a creator behind them that pushed a singular vision that defied genres and focus testing and ended with something specifically unique. Each of these games also had to be commercial enough to be released by a major publisher on and be available to a wide audience.... Keep Reading

Red Alert 3 has been getting a lot of flack for it’s Japanese-inspired third faction. Some think that EA’s new addition to its historical thought exercise is too unrealistic. But we say the problem isn’t that it stretches the imagination - but that is shows a complete lack of it.