Summer Game Fest has become many things. It’s Geoff Keighley’s showcase. It’s Xbox. It’s PlayStation. It’s Nintendo. It’s IGN Live. It’s Future Games Show. It’s The MIX. It’s Play Days. It’s hundreds of creator streams, press appointments, demos, interviews, and social media reactions compressed into a single week. And for a few days every June, […]

The members of The NPC Guild challenged some local fans to think about their favorite movies, TV shows, and video games differently during a panel at the Portland Fan Expo called The Real Heroes Weren’t The Protagonists.   Nathan Stewart, founder and managing director of The NPC Guild, Bruce Dugan, head of community and communications […]

Matthew Lillard has built an extraordinary career across film, television, video games, and entrepreneurial ventures such as Beadle and Grimm’s, creators of premium tabletop products, and Find Familiar Spirits, a company crafting story-driven beverages for fans. But he is also a philanthropist, most recently lending his talents to the Starlight Children’s Foundation, a charity devoted […]

Looking at a strict definition of the word, it has numerous meanings. From “an account of incidents or events” to “a widely circulated rumor,” a story can mean many things depending on the teller of the story and the listener of the story.   Many times, people are so interested in telling their story, they […]

Recently, I had the privilege of participating in the International Day of Play event with Starlight and Hasbro at Seattle Children’s Hospital. Like most of us who have worked in games for years, I’ve always believed in the power of play — but spending the day with these kids and their families was a powerful […]

About 26 years ago, I walked through the doors of Humongous Entertainment and started my career in video games. At the time, I was one of the first few marketers working on a small-but-mighty series called Backyard Sports. It was 1999, and Humongous had already found early success with Backyard Soccer and Backyard Baseball. Right […]