Well, I'm a bit biased as to whether PopCap games are really repellent, condescending, boring, insipid, and unfair, as the author opines. But it is odd that Nintendo is also held up as an exemplar of such repellent, insipid, etc game design in the first part of the article, then ...
Very interesting article Addiction is a tricky concept when applied to video games. Obviously it is possible to play a game when you should be doing something more productive, and taken to an extreme this behavior can be self-destructive. But at the same time it's the core of game-playing: it ...
