Trashing the Heap

What does it mean when a program crashes, and why does it happen?
Borderlands Series

A look at the main Borderlands games. What works, what doesn't, and where the series can go from here.
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Fallout 3

A long-form Let's Play of a classic that's probably overrated, and certainly dumber than it needed to be.
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Fallout 4

Is Fallout 4 the greatest videogame ever made? No. No it is not.
Trekrospective

A look back at Star Trek, from the Original Series to the Abrams Reboot.
Starcraft: Bot Fight

Let's do some scripting to make the Starcraft AI fight itself, and see how smart it is. Or isn't.
PC Gaming Golden Age

It's not a legend. It was real. There was a time before DLC. Before DRM. Before crappy ports. It was glorious.
id Software Coding Style

When the source code for Doom 3 was released, we got a look at some of the style conventions used by the developers. Here I analyze this style and explain what it all means.
Project Frontier

A programming project where I set out to make a gigantic and complex world from simple data.
Trusting the System

How do you know the rules of the game are what the game claims? More importantly, how do the DEVELOPERS know?
DM of the Rings

Both a celebration and an evisceration of tabletop roleplaying games, by twisting the Lord of the Rings films into a D&D game.
Ludonarrative Dissonance

What is this silly word, why did some people get so irritated by it, and why did it fall out of use?
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