Waving Goodbye: A Google Wave Gaming Postmortem
Google Wave was always a gaming conundrum. In general, the uncertainty of how to use Wave for communication was both its greatest weakness and greatest strength. Google Wave was designed as a framework for communication without any of the preexisting bias or baggage of email, digital white-boarding, or chat clients. My personal thought was that it had the potential as a communication channel to usurp email, at least in terms of usefulness with regard to embedded material and ease of collaboration. While the open framework of Wave allowed for innovation and experimentation, it never attained a critical mass of adoption that any new technology requires to become sustainable. As a ...
In Name Only
One of the most common ways to keep a series fresh is to add new characters to it. Sometimes, this idea is taken to an ext...
Dear Nintendo: A Modest Proposal
I’m sure by now we’ve all heard about the gorilla in San Franciso who ended up playing with the wayward Nintendo DSi X...
Share Your Gamer Tattoos!
I love video games. I’d say that it’s pretty safe to say that if you’re reading this, you also love vide...
An Open Letter To A Fanatic
Dear Matt, You’re one of my best friends. We’ve known each other for about seventeen years. I don’t know how to say ...
Putting On My Writer Suit
Greetings, 4CR! I’m Kyatt – artist, cat enthusiast, creator of Burn The Internet, Team Rocket sympathizer, and...
