In preparation for a series of Los Angeles mayoral candidate forums being hosted by the AIA beginning this Friday, Will Wright singles out the one issue that he would most like to see addressed. Wright, the Director of Government & Public Affairs for the

There are plenty of legends in the world of video games whose names will fly off the tongues of casual fans. Nolan Bushnell. Trip Hawkins. Shigeru Miyamoto. Will Wright. Sid Meier. It's a shame, then, that so few can name another of the all-time greats,

A few prominent Mets players are already streaming into camp, despite the fact that pitchers and catchers are not required to report until Monday. It seems that optimism is in the air, as it is for all 30 big league clubs this time of year. For the Mets,

Edmund White has spoken repeatedly of his crawling conviction as a boy and young man that being homosexual was "bad". As this deft, often delightful new novel shows, it's a burden he's left well behind. Gay Jack Holmes and straight Will Wright are best f

Covering tech and the power brokers of Silicon Valley. Will Wright is committed to creating another big video game hit. But in his next project, he plans to take the action off-screen and into real life. I caught up with the creator of the popular Sim Ci

Will Wright is committed to creating another big video game hit. But in his next project, he plans to take the action off-screen and into real life. I caught up with the creator of the popular Sim City and Spore franchises at this year’s Summit Series ev

Creator of The Sims Will Wright founded his latest company, Stupid Fun Club, in Berkeley Berkeleyside is thrilled to announce that on Monday March 5th we will be hosting the. The Forum’s focus will be the strengths, and weaknesses, of the city of Berkel

February 4 marks the 12th birthday of EA's blockbuster The Sims franchise and to celebrate the publisher has unveiled a massive infographic proving that people need to get out more. There's no denying that The Sims is a huge phenomenon in gaming. Origina

Seamus Blackley, the co-creator of the Xbox, passionately believes that gameplay will triumph in the game business. That is why he and his new startup are relying on a team of famous designers from Atari to make a series of games for the Apple iPhone and

Warren Spector, the industry luminary responsible for overseeing the development of such beloved games as System Shock and Deus Ex, has been revealed as this year's recipient of the twelfth Game Developers Conference Association's Lifetime Achievement Aw

That's not a sentiment you might expect from a gay writer. But Edmund White isn't your average gay novelist-and "Jack Holmes & His Friend" is, for White, a bit of a departure. It is, as its title states, about a friendship-a decades-long bond of ever-inc

Some novels plumb psyches, others draw social outlines and still others leave character pretty much out of it in favor of cerebral concepts or intricate plotlines. Over the course of his long career, Edmund White has written all of the above. But with hi

Halfway through Edmund White's new novel, "Jack Holmes & His Friend," the "friend" in the title pictures his gay buddy Jack "putting the moves on his boys." He imagines the two men "undoing each other's familiar belts, pulling off each other's familiar s

When it was launched in August, The Sims Social was the toast of Facebook. This social network-based version of the classic Will Wright game, where you get to guide your avatars toward the twin goals of advancing their careers and acquiring more stuff,

"Civilization" creators get a lot of their inspiration from the franchise's fans, Sid Meier says. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Sid Meier's "Civilization" game launched in 1991 The director at Firaxis Games is considered to be one of the great game designers Meier: "

The Quantified Self is one of the big trends of 2012, as we noted in our recent summary of the Consumer Electronics Show. As everything analog shifts to digital, we can collect a huge amount of data about ourselves. As I noted in our earlier story, the t

THIS IS A NOVEL about three failures. Two of them are the central characters in the book. The third is their creator, Edmund White. But taken together they amount to a success, of sorts. Jack Holmes, the hero, starts out in the 1960s as a student of Chin

Posted by tammy on January 19, 2012 When gamers associate your name with ground-breaking classics like SimCity, The Sims, and Spore, they expect radical ideas in your newest ventures. Master game designer Will Wright insists that's the case with his most

I started to understand why 28 million people are playing when I walked into my friend's home. We're all familiar with scoping somebody's apartment for the first time, judging them by their posters, their DVD collections, the books they don't own. I've p