Gary Hodges

One of the oft-repeated historical curiosities about the Maya is that they conceived the wheel yet never found a practical application for it. Mayan kids had wheeled toys and Mayan calendars were imagined as wheels . . . yet when it came to hauling something, your average Maya just heaped...

Recently, I wrote on joystickdivision.com about a link between one of gaming's biggest PR companies, TriplePoint PR, and a small gaming news and review site founded by TriplePoint's general manager and founder, Richard Kain. Though the site — GameCyte.com — was set up via a domain privacy service and none...

After years of development and nearly as many years of hype, Spore has arrived — an event made so big by the association of Will Wright (SimCity, The Sims) and EA's impressive marketing efforts, even the non-gaming press was reporting it, happily parroting bits and pieces of press releases that...

Well . . . I wish I could say I was surprised. Too Human, simply put, pretty much blows — probably not a great shock to anyone who follows gaming with even a passing interest. For years now, everything seen and heard about the beleaguered title seemed to reinforce the...

In the 25 years or so I've been playing games, never once have I encountered an earnest conversation about what a game means. You see every other sort of discussion — people talking about how a game looks, or how it plays, how long or short or difficult or easy...