As part of the launch of the Gleemax Indie Games Portal this summer, we will be launching a magazine-style website with reviews of the industry, commentary on the news of the week, and popular blogs from gleemax.com. These three articles give a preview of that upcoming site.

State of Gleemax / GDC Report
Randy Buehler, Vice President of Digital Games at Wizards, blogs about the state of Gleemax and gives a report about his experiences at the Games Developer Conference.

Desktop Tower Defense – "For the Win!"
Nate Heiss describes why DTD won the big prize this year.

Wizards R&D and Indie Games
Design and development of many Wizards games take place in a large communal work area nicknamed “The Pit.” Development Director Robert Gutschera describes the intersection of research and play in The Pit.

Indie Games versus the Pit
Nate Heiss has several roles at Wizards: Game Developer, Game Designer, and now commentator. But “mole-man”? Robert’s article describes The Pit; Nate describes how an indie game can take it over.

My Favorites
Cutting 170 entries down to seven finalists means that some high-quality games didn’t make it. Greg Marques, a Digital Games Designer at Wizards of the Coast, shares his thoughts on his three favorites.