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MSNBC Tech has awarded Alice: Madness Returns a "Best Art Direction" award for 2011. Alice had some serious competition for the honor, going up against some of the year's biggest and most beaut...

https://www.americanmcgee.com/2011/12/15/best-art-direction-for-alice-madness-returns/

Lots of news these days about Lenovo's announcement of the "Ebox" - a game console built in and for China (as well as the rest of Asia).

https://www.americanmcgee.com/2010/09/20/ebox-a-console-for-china/

Industry reports indicate used game sales are cutting into new game sales. Publishers and developers feel the pinch. Consumers and retailers don't see the problem. The economy gets some punching...

https://www.americanmcgee.com/2010/06/26/used-games-end-of-gaming-industry/

DexIQ Split-Screen Multiplayer Action Spicy Pony is proud to announce the release of DexIQ for iPad. The original DexIQ on iPhone was the Pony’s first game release – and in the months since i...

https://www.americanmcgee.com/2010/06/25/dexiq-for-ipad-released/

From Shanghai Daily: Wind power to blow strongly CHINA is expected to increase its total offshore wind-power capacity from 5,000 megawatts in 2015 to 30,000MW by 2020, a senior official at a hydr...

https://www.americanmcgee.com/2010/06/08/wind-power-to-blow-strongly/

Marketing tells us we need objects in order to be better people, feel better about ourselves, and impress our peers. If not for marketing, every person in the world might exist on the same basic ...

https://www.americanmcgee.com/2010/04/26/an-argument-for-ugly-characters/

Off the Map in China Gamasutra has posted an interview by Christian Nutt with your truly. It begins with… Famous for his work with id Software and on EA-published cult classic Alice, American M...

https://www.americanmcgee.com/2010/01/23/off-the-map-in-china/

I’m always amazed when I hear of friends spending $350USD or more per day for hotels in Shanghai. Sure, they’re nice… but if you’re hardly in them, what’s the point. So I’m glad to re...

https://www.americanmcgee.com/2009/12/25/china-on-a-budget/

Quick on the heels of news that the iPhone is gaining traction in China, Shanghai-based Spicy Horse gives birth to a mobile division aptly named "Spicy Pony ". Last week the Pony quietly relea...

https://www.americanmcgee.com/2009/12/18/iphone-developer-spicy-pony-launched/

DexIQ Challenge Select Screen Read my first review of DexIQ in Chinese this morning. Here’s an excerpt (translated by Google Translate): “DexIQ” is a very innovative game, the iPhone screen...

https://www.americanmcgee.com/2009/12/16/chinese-review-of-dexiq/