Blog Posts

  • Vins Gagliardi – Chateau Du Charnay

    Our buddy Pete Gagliardi over at Vins Gagliardi recently announced a new label in his selection of wines. This continues the series which features dark fairy tale label art by Ken Wong. “Red Riding Hood” is the latest inspiration: The previous wine in the series was “Rapunzel”, which you can find more info about here.…

  • USATODAY.com – Into the Pixel

    Spicy Horse conceptual artist Lin Ran did a series of images during early “Grimm” pre-production. I posted some of these images to my flickr account a while back, like this one, “The Boy Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was”: These images were entered into the annual “Into the Pixel” competition – “An exhibition…

  • The “Grimm” Logo

    Behold it in all its glory: The process for choosing a logo can be weird and painful. There’s conflicting opinions on the value of a product’s logo and packaging in general. Would “World of Warcraft” be any less successful if it shipped in a brown paper bag with “WoW” scribbled in crayon on the outside?…

  • GameTap brings 500+ PC games to Intel Macs

    This is cool: GameTap today announced that it is expanding its offerings to the Mac community by providing Intel-based Mac users access to its Lite Player, which offers more than 500 new and classic game titles as well as more than 600 streaming videos of original programming from GapeTap TV. “Mac users will now be…

  • Vykarian + Spicy Horse Team

    Whew! That’s a lot of people. The Shanghai Vykarian/Spicy team has grown to over 120 people since the start of the year. If you’re looking for a great photographer in Shanghai, be sure to check out Primo’s website or email him at primoyuan [at] 163.com – He took some great pictures of our office and…

  • American McGee

    No one loves a good ‘ol American McGee interview more than American McGee. Or so I thought until I did an interview with the guys over at ShackNews. Chris Faylor and his readers really enjoy their American McGee. Case in point: Every morning, American McGee’s American McGee arises from the American McGee’s bed and slips…

  • Mainstream Download #2

    Just yesterday I posted a note regarding the reemergence of downloadable content – and the relationship of this to casual games. Today I read the following news on Gamasutra: Telltale Gets $6 Million In Investments Sam & Max developers Telltale Games have announced the closing of a six million dollar round of investments from Granite…

  • Mainstream Download

    AP News is featuring an article discussing the (re-)emergence of mainstream downloadable game content. Mention is made of GameTap and the Grimm project. GRIMM FUTURE: If you want a really enormous library of classic games, however, you need to turn on your PC and head over to GameTap. The online service owned by Turner Broadcasting…

  • Outsourcing in the Warzone

    My business partner and friend Xin Chung was recently interviewed for an feature article over at China Economic Review. He talks about his company Vykarian and its place in the China outsource scene. Spicy Horse is using Vykarian to build all art assets for the Grimm project. It’s an interesting setup since we’re all in…

  • GameTap New Service Offerings

    Until this week I was hesitant to talk about any of the cool things going on over at GameTap. I figured some astute readers might sense a deal in the making before the announcement. But now that we’re “official” I’m free to espouse my enthusiasm for their service and their model. First up – 1UP.com…