knockknock.biz luggage tags. Photo courtesy of justinph. I guess it's finally time for me to level up. It was the summer of '99 when I convinced my then editor to send me on a tour of the U.S. videogame industry. When I finally returned three weeks later, my head was still spinning. I felt as though I'd seen the future of entertainment. It ...

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 180 Degrees columnist Bill Harris and his son Eli playing Super Mario Galaxy on the Wii Last month, in his debut guest column for Level Up, Dubious Quality blogger Bill Harris combined an interview with Armageddon Empires creator Viv Davis with an analysis of sales its patterns to help understand how indie developers must market ...

180 Degrees columnist Bill Harris and his son Eli

When we brought attorney Justin Blankenship aboard the good ship Level Up as our legal correspondent, we fully intended to have him write about subjects other than Electronic Arts' attempted takeover of Take-Two. And indeed, he has other columns in the works. But when news broke of a new dust-up between Take-Two and the Federal Trade ...

 Diagram of the influenza virus, courtesy Chris Bickel/Science In Part I of Bill Harris' 180 Degrees column, he and Armageddon Empires' creator Vic Davis discussed how Davis got into game development, as well as the gamer interest and sales pattern for AE during its first three months of release. In today's second and final installment, ...

 Armageddon Empires, developed and published by Cryptic Comet It's been almost three weeks since we unveiled our plans to add a select group of columnists who would contribute monthly posts to Level Up. Today, we're pleased to introduce our third columnist: Bill Harris of the blog Dubious Quality. ''Smart and caustic'' is how we ...

Armageddon Empires, developed and published by Cryptic Comet

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