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Induced Rage: Rogue Warrior
Aug 30th
It’s been a bit slow for us on the rage front. Due to a combination of school work (for me), regular work (for Squid), and the flood of business for his gay escort business (Mack), as well as few games or scandals to get excited about, we haven’t had a great deal to provide you, [...]
They don’t make bears (or games) like they used to
Aug 25th
I haven’t really been on top of this whole “being an angry blogger” thing recently, and for that I apologize. I’m sure there will be plenty to piss me off and relight that angry creative candle as soon as I start looking for it. It’s not as unhealthy as it sounds, I promise… For now, [...]
Valve as “Kingmakers?”
Aug 24th
While browsing through Kotaku today, I ran across a short article about how a Steam sale saved small developer Introversion (makers of Darwinia, Defcon, and others). It was an interesting article, and it’s nice to see this particular developer saved from closing its doors, but the final paragraph irked me. But for everyone else…Valve may [...]
Off Topic: US-Algeria Match at the World Cup
Jun 24th
In case you missed it, the US pounded the Algerian goal for 90 minutes with little success (unless you want to count that perfectly valid goal that was disallowed for a bogus offsides call). It wasn’t until the 91st minute that the US caught the break it needed and got the goal it deserved. If [...]
“Making History II: The War of the World” goes on sale today
Jun 23rd
Making History II: The War of the World goes on sale today. MHII is a Grand Strategy game set in the lead up to the Second World War. The game includes the resource management of typical of Grand Strategy games, but also involves trade routes, culture, and espionage. We’ll see what we can do …
Remembering the Fallen: My experience with loss in video games
Jun 1st
Kotaku had a very good article regarding the emotional attachment that we feel (or don’t) to characters in video games. The gist of the argument, with the backdrop of Memorial Day*, was that video games very seldom allow you to make an emotional attachment to other characters in a game outside of the script. However, [...]
Are games “too hard, too long and too full of stuff”?
May 23rd
Now that that’s out of the way… The answer is: no. But, by golly, I’m getting ahead of myself again. The question in question was posed in a post on Kotaku by John Davison of GamePro (formerly of What They Play and 1UP). In this post, Davison says the crew at GamePro have been speaking [...]
Roger Ebert: “Video games can never be art.”
Apr 22nd
The ultimate internet troll? In case you missed it, Roger Ebert proclaimed recently, and not for the first time, that “video games can never be art.” Never. Not at any point in the entire course of human history will our favorite interactive medium achieve such a “lofty” status in the eyes of the man who [...]
British Government Right Keen on Game Industry
Apr 20th
To any readers interested in the audio bidness, I recommend looking into a subscription to Audio Media. Not only do I recommend this because it’s free (it was when I first subscribed, at least), but it provides some good reads on a wide variety of audio topics, including music recording, post production, broadcast and, on [...]
Yahoo! points out that online language is offensive
Apr 16th
Yahoo! Games has an article up today about the offensive language that many online gamers use when shooting one another and generally causing death and destruction. Lest you think that I’m going to tear the article apart, I will say up front that it actually presents opposing viewpoints and gives them proper weight, and seems [...]
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