"But in truth you don’t get to choose the games that make you. Rather, these are the ones that time and circumstance pair you with. You don’t get to pick your DNA." I think Simon's short fragment was my favourite by a mile of the RPS "Gaming Made Me" features.

...and this is why games are great.

"The book addresses our philosophy in creating products and services, the importance of the right kinds of research, of making design an organizational competency, [and] of thinking of your offerings as part of a larger system..." Looks good!

"I thought I would write a little about how the places and spaces that were familiar to us had begun to warp and twist in entirely new ways, and how I experienced new, unfamiliar places as a result of the birth."