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Here are Ken Levine (Bioshock), Chris Avellone (Fallout: New Vegas), and David Gaider (Dragon Age) speaking about the importance of writing, plot, and game mechanics.

Cool painting in the hotel Sign in the dealers’ room food court Speaking of food – personal apple pie  Lovely ladies Gamers gaming Walkway between Anaheim convention center and hotel Tardises and Amy Pirate The BEST panel of all

This is an excellent interview with Chris Avellone, wherein he discusses how Fallout: New Vegas and its DLCs were created – the steps designers go through, etc., things he’s learned in the industry – such as not to foreshadow future games as they did in Knights of the Old Republic…

Welcome to Skyrim. This place probably needs no introduction amongst my readers, right? We’re all bleary-eyed from having stayed up too late playing the latest in the Elder Scrolls franchise. My fella asked if I was riding a draft horse and I proceeded to tell him about how Skyrim horses…

Today, October 29, is National Cat Day and to celebrate I shall share with you a partial SOLUTION to the BIOSHOCK Cats Mystery. Including cats for the player to discover actually IS a game-within-the-game. While it is still unknown who originally designed the black-and-white cat and put him/her in the…

I love Chris Avellone. Seriously. He is the coolest dude. And I shall now believe in my heart of hearts that Vulpes/Arcade is canon. (FYI: The link in the above tweet I sent goes to THIS post) Everything is Vulcade and nothing hurts!! You would not believe the squeee-ing and…

I stand corrected – there IS a named cat in Bioshock 2. I was scavenging in the frozen Imago gallery, melting things – as you will when you’re scavenging, and I melted a pile of ice to discover another Bioshock cat. This one was upright, not tipped over. Like a…

The mystery of Bioshock’s cats deepens…. Okay, if you follow this blog, you know that there is one specific dead cat populating both the original Bioshock and Bioshock 2. No dogs, no other cats. Just one black & white kitty who can be discovered in corners all over Rapture. And…

For all of you who have wondered about the prevalence of dead cats – or rather, one dead cat in particular – in Bioshock, the mystery continues…. Remember my blog post about this cat in original Bioshock? Well, the same cat appears in Bioshock 2. And this time, I have…

Welcome to Rapture, the underwater city where Bioshock and Bioshock 2 are set. Although this is one of those Utopias Gone Very, Very Wrong, let’s pretend for a moment that Rapture actually turned out okay. It’s beautiful, little bathyspheres float you around to different areas, there’s lots of lights and…