High Scores And Egos: There's Always A Bigger Doodle 
The Last Moments Of GAME 
How Bad User Interfaces Are Ruining Video Games And Other Wonderful Things 
She Tried To Make Good Video Games For Girls, Whatever That Meant 
The Story Of Doodle Jump: Brotherly Love And Digital Snacks 
Sunday Comics: Dead Island 
Examining why I play the games I do sometimes yields surprising insight. It’s become clear to me that many of the games I like… are kind of dating simulators, despite what the presentation or marketing might suggest. I don’t think I’m supposed to admit that, though. To say something like that feels like losing legitimacy as a “real gamer”, as if that idea even means anything. Worse: to say that seems so stereotypical, because I’m a woman.
Time passes in Animal Crossing. This is known. Now, thanks to comic artist Brian Lee, you can have the game’s music follow you throughout your day.
Producer Katsuya Eguchi and a trio of developers from the Animal Crossing 3DS team spend 10 minutes discussing how the latest iteration of the animal life sim will set itself apart from the rest. They had me at skirts and pants.
Katsuya Eguchi, creator of Animal Crossing and producer of the next game in that series, mostly talked to me about Wii U at E3 last week. But surely he had some news about Animal Crossing’s forthcoming 3DS installment?
