Monthly Archives: September 2012

MinecraftEdu feature for Edge

MinecraftEdu feature for Edge

My feature about MinecraftEdu from the September issue of Edge has been published on the magazine’s website: Minecraft in the classroom. (The print version has the proper headline: ‘School of rocks’. Possibly my best ever work.)

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Ed Logg’s GDC 2012 talk on Atari’s Gauntlet

Ed Logg’s GDC 2012 talk on Atari’s Gauntlet

Photo by Spyderella I’ve got a real soft spot for Gauntlet. The 4-player coin-op seemed monstrously big to me as a child, and I loved the resounding bass of the music and the “Wizard is about to die” speech. I was so desperate to own US Gold’s ZX Spectrum home conversion, I swapped my precious copy of Pete Cooke’s Academy, which I’d won in a C&VG competition. So I was fascinated by Ed Logg’s talk at …

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