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VH1 Game Break
Sayonora: The Last Game Break Column
By Harold Goldberg This is it, folks: the final Game Break blog item. During the past few years, I've broken exclusive stories and given you exclusive interviews with top Hollywood stars along with top musicians. And VH1 has had unprecedented...
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Into The Casual Game Cafe With Trip Hawkins
By Harold Goldberg During the past few days, you've been privy to the fascinating, decades-ling history of Trip Hawkins from the man himself. During these interview sessions, I found that Hawkins, a pioneer and innovator since the early days of...
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Trip Hawkins: Casual Games Mobile Phones
By Harold Goldberg When 3DO bit the dust, Trip Hawkins took a little time to take stock of where he wanted to go in the area of games. He didn’t wait long at all to create Digital Chocolate, which has...
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Exclusive: Electronic Arts Founder Trip Hawkins, Part IV
By Harold Goldberg It was time. Making games for the Sega Genesis led Trip Hawkins and his team to take Electronic Arts public in September of 1989. The first releases of Sega Genesis games occurred in June of 1990. But...
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Exclusive: The Ultra-Candid Trip Hawkins, Part 3
By Harold Goldberg Electronic Arts had Madden in the 1980s. And that game was supremely successful. But the company was on a mission to become a worldwide leader. In this portion of our multi-part interview with Trip Hawkins, the EA...
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Drill Down With Mr. Driller
Kotaku just found a Japanese site which features screenshots for Namco Bandai’s upcoming Mr. Driller Online for the Xbox Live Arcade. The upshot? Mr. Driller is a thriller. Also released are screenshots of directions, which look very easy to understand....
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Hot Dance Party Almost Ready
Perfect World, the hot Chinese makers of MMOs, has started its final beta test of Hot Dance Party, its casual MMO that might take the world by storm when it’s released in the next month or so. Says Perfect World’s...
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Two Cents: Bully 4 Bully 4 The Wii!
When Bully was released for the PlayStation 2, it became one of my games of the year at the Village Voice. It was a staggeringly giant game and I loved it not only because of the go-anywhere gameplay, but because...
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Punk-O-Matic Rocks, Oi
One of the top games on Kongregate these days is Punk-o-matic which even includes a Flash animated, R-rated comic with penguins called “Dude!” (Seriously, the words in the game are punky and raw: you’ve been warned). Basically, you can choose...
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Exclusive – Trip Hawkins Interview, Part 2
By Harold Goldberg As Game Break continues its look at the history of Electronic Arts through the eyes of founder Trip Hawkins, I talked with the thoughtful, loquacious personality about the one game that really made Electronic Arts a huge...
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