Once upon a time*, I proclaimed I was going to beat all the mainline games in the Dragon Quest series within a single year. It ended up only taking me nine and a half months. I've enjoyed (almost**) every moment of it. I think I flew through the games simply because...
Video games, more than any other medium of entertainment, revolve around continuing franchises — long chains of sequels — to the degree that when major developers unveil a new IP it’s often huge news.
Video game worlds can usually be divided up into three fairly clean categories: overworlds, dungeons and towns. Dungeons get a lot of love, it’s true. But nothing quite makes me fall in love with a game or setting like a really well made town, city or village. I love...
The 13th Story will mostly focus on any number of random ideas and thoughts, but I really want to make it my goal to be insightful. I really want to express concepts and ideas that will help you appreciate games on a deeper level.
Looking at the current online social landscape is kind of looking at a Mad Max-style hellscape of ones and zeroes. But there’s hope that we may have some great things ahead of us.
Beej has been thinking about how online communities have changed over the past 20 years, where they stand now, and what all of us can do to ensure the future is bright.
