Archive - Disruptor

Easy to Learn, Difficult to Master

Sep 6

Masters of Disruption: How the Gamer Generation Built the Future [44]Listen now (2 min) | How Africa’s Kiro’o Games shook up the gaming industry

Jul 20

Fiji Time Watch now (52 sec) | I’m reporting a story in Fiji where, in this village, the Lali drum is sounded daily at 4 a.m. and 6 p.m., alerting the locals to…

Jul 19

Masters of Disruption: How the Gamer Generation Built the Future [42]Listen now (2 min) | How did a chain-smoking geek from Hanoi design the viral hit Flappy Bird – and why did he walk away?

Jul 12

Vietnam's most famous game developer speaks about the design of his viral hit, Flappy Bird.

Jul 12

My chat with Bob Mould when the net felt underground

Jul 8

Masters of Disruption: How the Gamer Generation Built the Future [41]Listen now (2 min) | A blind gamer made a version of Doom he could play by sound alone.

Jul 5

The long strange trip of the drug-dealing computer game.

Jul 1

Masters of Disruption: How the Gamer Generation Built the Future [40]Listen now (2 min) | Like a lot of 16-year-olds in the aughts, Blake Peebles wanted to play Guitar Hero all day long. But he actually convinced his…

Jun 28

A sneak peak of my upcoming graphic novel, “Easy to Learn, Difficult to Master,” with illustrator Koren Shadmi.

Jun 24

Masters of Disruption: How the Gamer Generation Built the Future [39]Listen now (2 min) | Larval game jocks circa Y2K.

Jun 21

Ode to the Reporters Notebook Watch now (2 min) | The essential journogear

Jun 17

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