- LOST gets an endpoint. Narratively speaking, this is huge.
- The Witch’s Yarn. Fun-looking indie game for Mac and PC.
- Average US home has more TVs than people. Old news, still disturbing.
- Philip K. Dick, legit at last. 1,000 amphetamines a week?
- Podcasts as promos. I gotta get in on this.
- Console makers promote connected gaming. I need more gamer buddies.
- The Escapist: welcome to the world of art mods. Hottt.
- NYT: Hollywood loves mobisodes, advertisers don’t. Just wait.
- PVP: “Who put the blind guy in charge of flying the ship?” Oh, snap.
- Threadless: The Leftover. Very cool for a gaming shirt.
- Wikipedia: List of Animated Series. That’s a lot of drawings.
- Sony signs for 3 more Spider-Man movies. Surprise, surprise.
- Etrian Odyssey. Integrated map notation system = awesome.
- Spider-Man 3 hits NYC. Holy crap, lookit that Sandman statue!
- First look at Wolverine and the X-Men. Beast is back!
- Marvel Illustrated bringing back the classics. I remember reading my mom’s old stash of Classics Illustrated.
- Sci-Fi Channel adds anime block. I hope it’s good anime, at least.

Storyteller, scholar, consultant. Loving son, husband and father. Kindhearted mischief-maker.
I'm the Director of the Games and Simulation program at Miami University in Ohio, where I am also an Assistant Professor in the College of Creative Arts' Emerging Technology in Business and Design department. I'm also the director of Miami's Worldbuilding and Narrative Design Research Laboratory (WNDRLab). I have a Master's in Comparative Media Studies from MIT and a PhD in Media Arts and Practices from the University of Southern California.
In past lives I've been the lead Narrative Producer for Microsoft Studios and cofounder of its Narrative Design team, working on projects like Hololens, Quantum Break and new IP incubation; in a "future of media" think tank for Microsoft's CXO/CTO and its Chief Software Architect; the Creative Director for the University of Southern California's World Building Media Lab and the Technical Director, Creative Director and a Research Fellow for USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab; a Visiting Assistant Professor at Whittier College and director of its Whittier Other Worlds Laboratory (WOWLab); the Communications Director and a researcher for the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab; a founding member of the Convergence Culture Consortium at MIT (now The Futures of Entertainment); a magazine editor; and a award-winning short film producer. more »
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