This is one of those stories I bothered Sony about for a year before it came together, and then once it came together I had to turn it around in about a day. Just the way it works sometimes, and I was happy that we were able to show Journey‘s evolution through a series of prototype videos…

In 2010, Richard Li and I spent two weeks driving across the U.S., stopping at game developers, publishers, arcades, and whatever we could fit in. We tried to do something different at each stop — playing soccer with Frank O’Connor at 343, testing Kinect with kids at Microsoft, eating tacos with Warren Spector at Junction Point, celebrating…

For a brief period at 1UP, Richard Li and I experimented with a video show called Backstage. The idea was to show how game development worked in a more realistic, less sales pitchy format. And it kind of worked — I had a lot of fun sitting in on a focus group for EA’s NBA…

I’ve always been a sucker for the deleted scenes and bonus features you see on film DVDs, so over the years I’ve often pitched game companies on releasing similar clips. One of my favorites came through as part of a making-of interview with DICE just before its parkour runner Mirror’s Edge shipped, where after a few months of…