I’ll be speaking at the Penny Arcade Expo on July Sixth.
My speech last year ended up being standing room only, so if you want to see it, make sure you get there early!
Here’s what it’s going to be about:
The Future of Gaming: You Don’t Know What You’re Going to Get

The success of the Wii, the iPhone, and the rise of social gaming are already turning the entire video game industry on its head. Are you ready?
Following up on last year’s standing-room-only talk on how developers really see …

I’m sure I’ve mentioned Lawrence Miles here before, but he’s just put up the kind of post that makes me realize just how happy I am that Doctor Who is British:
Why have I never before noticed that “strategem” is “megatarts” backwards? Obviously, we can say with some confidence that “The Sontaran Megatarts” would have been preferable to what Helen Raynor actually gave us: I imagine them being something like mass-cloned blow-up-dolls, with three realistic holes, or four if you’re dirty and want to use the probic vent.

I’m always looking for a movie to get excited about.  Somthing that will provide a bit of inspiration. This one looks like it might fit that bill:

It seems like working on a book, excuse me, a novel, at this point in the history of text is a ridiculously anachronistic process. While I’m able to tell a different kind of story than I’ve every tried before, you keep wondering if anyone is actually going to read it, or what it’s all for, in a world where print is dying, and screens are for reading short tiny things of import only in the moment. And even then it’s all turning to twitter for some reason.
So writing something big …