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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 [...]
EA’s Project Ten Dollar marches on
May 11th
I expect this is what Project Ten Dollar’s next phase will look like. “Gimme the cassshhh!” Project Ten Dollar, for those of you who don’t know, is the name of EA’s master plan to take more of your money. At its inception, the basic premise was this: if you buy a game new, you get [...]
We just stole your editor. How you like them apples?
Apr 26th
One of the founders of IGN and long time Nintendo reviewer Matt Casamassina has stated on his blog that, after 13 years of service, he is leaving IGN to join up with Apple as their “Global Editorial Games Manager”. If you’re as confused by that title as I was, here’s a snippet of his description [...]
Section 8: PS3 Review
Apr 26th
I know the term “hardcore” is thrown around a lot in the gaming community, often with negative connotation, but there’s really no other way to describe Section 8 other than hardcore. It eats other “hardcore” first person shooters for breakfast. Any seasoned FPS gamer with countless hours of Halo and Modern Warfare play under their belt, [...]
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 [...]
Kotaku confirms that Valve loves the PC
Apr 21st
There is a post up on Kotaku that discusses the new “Mutations” mode in the Left 4 Dead 2 DLC that is due out this Thursday. The new game mode sounds interesting and all, but the last paragraph was what caught my eye: Purchased being a relative term, of course. Xbox 360 players can expect [...]
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 [...]
Zampella and West Respawn in EA Camp
Apr 12th
It’s official. Vince Zampella and Jason West, former Activision heads who jumped ship last month (March), have been picked up by EA. They’ll be forming a new studio called Respawn Entertainment with Zampella as General Manager. So those are the facts. Now for the opinion. I can’t help but think, since Zampella and West left [...]
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