We like to kick lots of ideas around the office. Sometimes we kick them until, like the poor fellow in Clockwork Orange, they lie twisted and bleeding on the ground with Singing in the Rain playing cheerily off to one side.

For example, the other day I heard some members of the Neopets team discussing the idea of breeding a dolphin with a chimp. Nobody was sure if it would result in a chimp with fins, but if it did, Deanna - the gameplay lead on Neopets - assured everybody that she...

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I have been exclusively seduced by the sleek black sexiness of my PS3 for the last 2 months. Poor old nerdy-beige Xbox 360 has been left sitting on the shelf next to her and has not even been turned on since she entered my life in an impulse-buy at Target one rainy afternoon.

I decided to rectify this injustice on the weekend - to leave the sheer velvety shininess of the PS3 behind, and to catch up with my good old down-to-earth beer-drinkin' buddy, the Xbox 360. So I jumped on to...

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With Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition due out in a few days, it's got me feeling all RPG-ish, like I want to kick down a few doors, Great Cleave a posse of Kobolds and then gingerly feel my way down a dark slimy corridor with a 10 foot pole.

So to slake the disturbingly Freudian desires above, I have trawled the Infinite Archives to locate the character sheet I used to introduce myself in my presentation at GDC 2008 in San Francisco. It is my hope that this cathartic act, along with...

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Well... the announcement of Neopets Puzzle Adventure today caught me with my virtual pants down. Even though we had shown the game to the press last week in Las Vegas, I wasn't actually expecting any announcements for a couple of weeks at least.

Now a quick thank you to two people who made my life not suck the other day - Anna & Leanne, the QANTAS check-in girls at LAX airport. They might be reading my blog and possibly showing it to their boss... so hey, boss, give these girls a...

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ACMI (the Australian Center for Moving Image) is a fantastic place, and they are currently running a show called Game On. This has a selection of games going right back to Pong and includes some of my all-time favorites such as Galaga and The Hobbit. They also have Puzzle Quest, though the parts of my soul I had to auction off to allow it in amongst such esteemed company will surely guarantee eternal damnation for my firstborn and possibly second-and-thirdborn as well.

Anyway, a...

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