Joseph Bernstein

Link: selfless hero or destructive jackass?

Imagine: you live in a small town, a sunny place in the woods where some people have summer homes, little vegetable gardens, even a dairy cow or two. No one is rich but no one is hurting for cash, either. It’s such a sweet town that no one even bothers locking their doors. The only real problem in t

Recreating the recreated arcade experience

How do you emulate an experience? That’s the question that Rantmedia Games is trying to answer with their Vectrex Regeneration, the iCade recreation of the Vectrex, the 1982 vector-graphics system that itself aimed to recreate the arcade experience at home. This piece at Ars Technica is fascinating,

Why we need to stop criticizing game company CEOs

Bobby Kotick, the brash, outspoken, much-maligned New Yawhkah who is the CEO of Activision Blizzard, came in for the New York Times profile treatment over the weekend. It won’t do much to change the gaming community’s perception of him: Even in high school in Roslyn, N.Y., he had a taste for showman

The definitive account of Japan’s rejection of the Xbox

Microsoft’s struggles selling the Xbox in Japan are legendary, and here is the definitive account of its failure, at Eurogamer. The factors at play range from a poorly received introductory speech at the 2001 Tokyo Games Show by Bill Gates, to a lack of understand of and respect for complex Japanese