Today I saw the newest trailer for Grand Theft Auto IV, a game which is being hyped as bringing interactive storytelling to new heights. In a brief interview with the developers (concerning the trailer), they pointed out the complex range of emotions the main character goes through during the game …

I'm sure at some point all of you have wished you had a savegame/loadgame feature in your daily life - I know there's more than a few occassions where I put my foot in my mouth and wished immediately I could reload and try again, just like in a video game. Or even more seriously, when I did somethi…

The development of artforms has always coincided with technology. Keep in mind this is not to say that art has "improved" over time, but that its form and subject matter has evolved and been informed by the technology.

For example, the novel would not have been possible as an artform without the pr…

For my first journal entry, I'd like to share with everyone the experience I had that introduced me to the potential of this new medium. It happened several years ago - 2002 if I remember correctly - when I was playing the PC game The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind.

The game, for those of you who are…