January 8, 2021
“I’m really excited about the future.”
Wearing a sharkskin sportcoat over dark jeans and an untucked shirt, Marc Whitten strode onto center stage inside a massive…
Author: Brian Crecente
January 6, 2021
Rise of the LEGO Digital Creator
While you’ve always been able to build your own physical creations with a bucket of LEGO® bricks, the route to the same level…
December 30, 2020
LEGO Island: Birth of a LEGO Video Game
It may not have been the first LEGO® video game, but it was arguably the most impactful. LEGO Island released in September 1997…
December 23, 2020
How Gaming Helped Shape the LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special
The LEGO® Star Wars™ Holiday Special was — in some ways — shaped by the upcoming game LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga and other LEGO…
December 21, 2020
LLB: Gremlins
There’s no debating that Gremlins is a holiday movie, but is it a horror flick? We dive deep into the…
December 16, 2020
How the LEGO Group Blends the Physical and Digital to Create New Forms of Play
The LEGO Group’s 25-year-history of video games wasn’t just a journey about learning how to transform a physical playset into a digital…
December 11, 2020
LLB: Krampus
What’s a holiday celebration without the annoying in-laws, the last-minute mini-crisis averted, and — oh, right — the embodiment of…
December 9, 2020
DLC Ep. 368
Jeff and Christian welcome Brian Crecente from Bits N Bricks back to the show this week to discuss Oscar Isaac…
December 9, 2020
The LEGO Minecraft That Almost Was
The creator of Minecraft was well into development of a LEGO® brick take on his massive hit when he decided to…
December 4, 2020
LLB: Jennifer’s Body
Derided as a hodgepodge of mixed-bag dialog and a slightly scary, but not scary enough plot when it first hit…