Inside The Mirror’s Edge ‘Ideas Cloud’

Rob Nausea on November 18th, 2008

During my short stint as a copywriter at EA, I was privy to several brainstorming sessions for IP that are just now hitting the market. One of which was Mirror’s Edge, which myself and a couple of other like-minded cynics around the water cooler liked to refer to as “Mirror’s Wank.” Here’s what I can recall of the first meeting.

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5 Things That Didn’t Kill Gaming As We Know It, Just Like Wii Fit Won’t

agent b on June 11th, 2008

Travel the dusty inner tunnels of any video game message board and you’ll likely be struck with the fear that popular, non-traditional video game outings like Wii Fit will be the death of conventional gaming as we know it. We’ve heard their Chicken Little-ing; Wii Fit will supposedly usher in an era where casual gamers (i.e. your mother and her hiked-jean sporting peers) will help amass such great sales that companies will shift focus towards their demographic, thus leaving us pale cherubs abandoned in our gameless dens of nerdery. Gamestops will crumble, thumbs will petrify and Wii mote wielding senior citizens will rule the streets like a zombie apocalypse riding Rascals. Bullshit. We gamers been have through far worse crazes than this and survived the aftermath A-OK…
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