Procedural Justice and Nerfing

Most of us have been in a situation where we feel that we’ve gotten the short end of a pointy stick. Maybe we were booted from a game server, banned from a message board, or had our favorite MMO game character weakened by a patch in such a way that left us shaking our tiny…

Freezing Your Decision-Making Synapses

A reader sent me a tweet recently pointing to something that reminded him of an article he’d read here: the pre-order options for Frozen Synapse, a PC strategy game in development by Mode 7 Games. BEHOLD: Here’s the gist of the options, with US Dollars Option 1: game + copy for a friend ($25.99) Option…