Author Archives: Mark Wallace

Gaming Began With Ameritrash

Posted on February 24, 2013 by Mark Wallace

It’s just now struck me that the however-many-thousand-year history of gaming began with a very distinct class of board game known as Ameritrash. Don’t believe me? Consider the evidence: Senet, commonly mentioned as the oldest known board game, features the … Continue reading →

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The Time For A Digital “New Journalism” Is Now

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Mark Wallace

Frédéric Filloux had an interesting post this week on The Need for a Digital “New Journalism” in which he calls for “an urgent evolution in the way newspapers are written” online. Among other points, Filloux — who writes the Monday … Continue reading →

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The Board Game That Led to the First MMO

Posted on February 19, 2013 by Mark Wallace

In our book on virtual worlds and online games (The Second Life Herald: The Virtual Tabloid that Witnessed the Dawn of the Metaverse), we give a lot of attention, fittingly, to the first persistent multiplayer online world. Known as MUD1 … Continue reading →

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Strategy Game Gets Book Deal

Posted on February 11, 2013 by Mark Wallace

The most interesting part of this press release announcing that Ireland-based game company Digit raises US$2.5m is not the financing news, but the last sentence of the release: “Kings of the Realm [Digit's free-to-play strategy title] is due out later … Continue reading →

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Fitting Mobile Games Onto a Board

Posted on February 7, 2013 by Mark Wallace

This is cross-posted from the Quora blog I recently started as an experiment. Why am I cross-posting this here? Who knows… I love the idea of board games based on video games. But I’m not sure whether I like that … Continue reading →

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Blogging at Quora

Posted on January 31, 2013 by Mark Wallace

For some reason, I’ve started a blog over at Quora. Back to Analog will (probably) look at what I refer to in my first post as the Return to Substance: the current trend toward the tactile and physical, toward the … Continue reading →

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If You Build It They Will Share — Or Not

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Mark Wallace

I like the idea of Quartz, the new business magazine from the Atlantic Group, but I’m not convinced they have a plan in place to reach the people they need to reach. Maybe they do, but I haven’t heard about … Continue reading →

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More Evidence of Maturing Private Equity Markets

Posted on September 20, 2012 by Mark Wallace

Entrepreneur, investor, and “data guy” Mike Greenfield has a nice post on how AngelList quantitatively changes the investing game, which lines up nicely with a few of the points I was trying to make in my recent post on whether … Continue reading →

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Season of Change?

Posted on September 16, 2012 by Mark Wallace

Around here, everyone wants to change the world, but it seems that late-September / early-October is the season when a lot of those hopes take shape — if the conference schedule is anything to judge by. Here’s a (very) short … Continue reading →

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Lamest Corporate Social Responsibility Press Release Ever?

Posted on September 13, 2012 by Mark Wallace

L’Oreal, a $5 billion multinational that bills itself as “the world’s leading beauty company,” had a press release on the Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire yesterday, flagging the $2 million it raised for the Children’s Specialized Hospital Foundation, which “serves children … Continue reading →

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