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Survey Sunday Roundup: Nintendo

August 21, 2011 by Steven Savage

So what should Nintendo do about the idea it's games should onon things like Tablets? Here's what we discussed:

1. Should Nintendo put its games on non-Nintendo platforms?

57.1% – Yes
0.0% – Yes, but after another generation or two of hardware.
14.3% – Yes, but special releases that aren't on any other platforms.
14.3% – No.
14.3% – It doesn't matter.

Games And Tradition in The Video Game Age

July 13, 2011 by Steven Savage

There are games out there that are traditional. Dungeons and Dragons in all its incarnations. Settlers of Cataan. Cosmic Encounter. Risk. Axis and Allies. There are pen and paper games, board games that are older than many people, games people have played from childhood to adulthood. There are games that, for many, are traditions.

By traditions I mean games that people play for a considerable time, may identify with, and that act as cultural touchstones. How many of us (older geeks at least) remember Monopoly or D&D from Days Gone By, and played them for years and decades? How many times did we use certain games as references or ways to sync up with others?

So I began to wonder about computer games.

Rebuttal – Superman in Video Games

April 5, 2011 by Steven Savage

(Remember when I said someone on Twitter had said a Superman game couldn't be done? And I wrote about it? The person who got me, thinking, Julian of http://www.gamepad-dojo.com/, volunteered to contribute his insights on the idea of a came, and the fundamental flaws such a game would have)