The Empty City - Reviewing a Game and a Book by Jorge Arroyo
"I've been thinking a lot about the game Icehouse lately (as opposed to the Icehouse gamesystem). It was the first game that used the pyramids and it has an interesting origin: The fiction stories of one of its creators, Andy Looney. It also has some sort of mystique around it, some kind of aura that separates it from other games. I think this comes, in part, from the stories on the book The Empty City, where a small cast of characters live their lives around this game that in their reality has replaced Chess and Go."