Video Game Issues

'Tales from the GDC Vault' presents talks on the Dreamcast, PlayStation 2 from 1999

23 May 2012

Continuing his Tales from the GDC Vault series, GDC historian Jason Scott has digitized and uploaded three free, notable videos from the 1999 Game Developers Conference, all of which are available online for the first time. Two of these classic GDC videos touch on the dawning of an older generation of video game consoles, with keynotes from Sega of America's Bernie Stolar on Sega's Dreamcast and ...

How Curt Schilling's video game dreams turned toxic

23 May 2012

commentary An ambitious plan to create a competitor to "World of Warcraft" and a loan from Rhode Island transformed a politically conservative former baseball star into a case study for foolish government spending.

Blizzard responds to Diablo III hackusations

22 May 2012

I laughed really hard the first time I saw the Blizzard Authenticator, an RSA key fob-style secure code generator, to protect my video game. I couldn’t imagine a world where I would care enough about my game, much less allow my personal security to be compromised to that level. That little keychain seemed like a [...]