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Column: The Game Anthropologist: 'Game Community Interviews, Part 4 - The Brainy Gamer's Michael Abbott

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2008-08-10 08:00:28 by Mike Walbridge in GameSetWatch
...Brainy Gamer Of the seven people I interviewed, Michael Abbott is the only one who is not a game journalist; he is, however, accurately classified as a games writer. His persona matches his writing: confident, mild, wise, and academic. Still, the two words that keep coming to my mind are "gentle" and "enthusiastic." While the Brainy Gamer is...
 
 
 
 
 
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An Analysis of Interactive Blogging Features and Language in Fostering Characterization and Community Building

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2008-06-22 12:40:28 by Daniel in DP's Gamer Blog:: Mighty Pirate!
...Brainy Gamer (http://brainygamer.com). This blog has received significant garner and praise by many of the Internets most famous bloggers (Croal, 2008) (Greene, 2008) . Within a short period of time (of ten months) Michael has managed to carve out his own recognizable persona and a loyal and dedicated following of readers which define this...
 
 
 
 
 
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Link Out (18/3/08)

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2008-03-17 23:07:52 by Daniel in DP's Gamer Blog:: Mighty Pirate!
...Brainy Gamer Podcast #10 Brainy Gamer In the past month I have come across Brainy Gamer; a blog dedicated to intelligent discussion on a variety of important issues relating not only the industry but also software and design. The blogger over there; Micheal Abbot, is the most sincere and genuine bloggers that I have come across. He has a real...
 
 
 
 
 
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GameSetLinks: Cactus Broke My Brain

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2008-03-19 00:00:18 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...Brainy Gamer: The Brainy Flamer And Future just invested in N4G, didn't they? Sigh AtariProtos.com - Dark Chambers (Atari 7800 Interesting because it's an update of the original inspiration for Gauntlet, Dandy - which I didn't know about 8bitrocket.com: Review: Pinball Hall Of Fame:Williams Collection for the Wii Just grabbed this for PSP,...
 
 
 
 
 
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Join the Club

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2008-08-08 04:12:05 by Daniel in DP's Gamer Blog:: Mighty Pirate!
...Brainy Gamer Introduction Discussion The ever popular Micheal Abbot last month began The Vintage Game Club debuting with the brilliant Grim Fandango . Not much more can be said really, the club is a couple of weeks old and response seems enthusiastic despite some difficulty overcoming the games difficult puzzles (which itself has become a...
 
 
 
 
 
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GameSetLinks: New Year's Link Delight

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2008-01-01 16:00:17 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...Brainy Gamer: The five best under-the-radar games of 2007 Notable for mentioning Lunar Knights, which I think many have forgotten about collapsing geography: grading my 2007 predictions ex-Second Life CTO Cory Ondrejka has a new blog, x-posts his MMO/VW-related Terra Nova predictions The Man Who Hates the World Warren Spectors blog Even more...
 
 
 
 
 
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Brain Challenge screenshots for the brainy

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2008-01-17 15:15:00 by Dustin Burg in Xbox 360 Fanboy
Filed under: News , Xbox Live Arcade Using our brains (ha, ha!), we dug through a pile of Xbox Live Arcade screenshots today and came across brand new Brain Challenge images. New Brain Challenge screenshots that we've kindly placed in a gallery below. New screenshots that give us better insight to what the game is about and how it'll be played....
 
 
 
 
 
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BBC Program: Brainy DS Game Discriminates Against Scottish Accents

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2008-02-05 14:19:56 by GamePolitics in GamePolitics.com
Computer and Video Games reports that Nintendo DS title Brain Training (known as Brain Age in the U.S. market) was accused of discriminating against Scottish accents on a U.K. news program this week The BBC show Watchdog , hosted by Nicky Campbell, devoted a five-minute segment to the issue on Monday evening, saying that the DS game clearly...
 
 
 
 
 
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Peggle Dev: Tricks to Make Games Addictive

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2008-02-05 09:27:55 by Susan Arendt in Game | Life
...brainy. Games with "really cerebral" puzzles "that you cant really replay are just not as popular as infinitely replayable mechanics that don't require a ton of deep thought," explained Kapalka Makes sense so far. The puzzles of a game like Myst might present an engaging challenge, but once you know the solution, there's no real reason to...