How the Steam Console could disrupt the gaming market

Valve is a fast-growing business in a dying market. They’re one of the biggest forces in PC gaming, thanks to great games and also Steam, their gaming network/app store/publishing platform. But PC sales are in freefall, so Valve has realized that they are doomed. Doomed, that is, unless they make a play for either mobile devices or the […]

Drama, not Prose: Storytelling in Games

People say there’s not much good storytelling in games, but I think that’s simply not true. I think, instead, that most people are looking in the wrong place. The other day I was playing Left 4 Dead 2, and something awesome happened: a narrative of altruism, sacrifice . . . and ultimately, betrayal. The stuff […]

Philip Trippenbach

Communications strategy in the age of intelligent machines

Left 4 Dead 2

How the Steam Console could disrupt the gaming market

Drama, not Prose: Storytelling in Games