Clinically speaking, depression is a pessimistic sense of your own capabilities, and despondent lack of energy.

Cory Doctorow is a fast and furious storyteller who gets all the details of alternate reality gaming right, while offering a startling, new vision of how these games might play out in the high-stakes context of a terrorist attack. Little Brother is a brilliant novel with a bold argument: hackers and gamers might just be our country's best hope for the future.

A dramatic decrease in oil availability is not at all far-fetched.

Any time I consider a new project, I ask myself, is this pushing the state of gaming toward Nobel Prizes? If it's not, then it's not doing anything important enough to spend my time.

Every game designer should make one explicitly world-changing game. Lawyers do pro bono work, why can't we?

It seems like what happens when we play games is that we go into a psychological state called eustress, or positive stress. It's basically the same as negative stress in the sense that we get our adrenaline up, you know, our breathing rate quickens, our pulse quickens.

Games that make you feel good about yourself are good games to be playing.