I had a tight group of friends in high school and college who were all, to one degree or another, gamers like me. We had a few places where we hung out, including the local shopping mall (it was the eighties, after all) and the basement of one friend’s house, where we spent hours playing …
My fourteen-year-old son likes games. I guess it’d be hard for him not to; most of the time, if his old man isn’t working on games, he’s playing them. He grew up in a house filled with toys – Lego, board games, Warhammer miniatures, and D&D books. He’s seen both his dad and his mom …
What’s Old is New: Games and the Nostalgia Factor Read More »
So first, a quick refresher on recent events: In late spring of 2023, a major funding deal between the Swedish company Embracer Group and Savvy Games – a group backed by money from the Saudi government – spectacularly collapsed. The deal was supposedly worth two billion dollars in development funding over six years and had …