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Journalism; when is it justified for a writer to work for free?

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The Controversial Bit: yesterday morning, I posted on Twitter the following: Hypothesis; people who write for free are using their secure financial situation as an unfair advantage. Any antitheses? I got plenty. [more...]

Interview: Casey Wimsatt, Symbionica on how games help the Autistic.

Again, this was research for a feature I did for PC Gamer on disabled gaming. Casey Wimsatt makes games proven to improve the social skills of children with Autism. [more...]

Interview: Dr Stephen Thaler and his Dreaming AIs.

Dr Stephen Thaler

I did a series of interviews for a feature for Computer Shopper way back in January; this was the most interesting of them, with Dr Stephen Thaler, a man who is either doing stuff on the edge of our current knowledge or is a charlatan. He’s nearly convinced me he’s telling the truth and just deliberately misusing language , but if that’s the case then we need to reappraise the current state of play of AI. Key points; he thinks his AIs dream Warning: He can really talk. This is a long one. [more...]

Interview: Jesse Schell on gaming, the social sciences, identity loss and behavioural shaping.

Jesse is very small.

Previously Creative Director of the Disney Imagineering Virtual Reality Studio, Jesse Schell thinks hard about the future of games; he’s worked on Toontown Online and teaches game design at Carnegie Mellon university. You can see his amazing DICE talk on the future of gaming here. This interview was conducted for a PC Gamer piece on Social Gaming about a year ago. [more...]

The Most Modded Games: Top of the Mods.

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Simple question; which games have have the most mods made for them? Source: Mod Db. This lists 7,776 mods in total. Caveats: Does not include maps. Older games, obscure games I didn’t look at, or games with independent communities are likely to be under-represented. [more...]