For some reason, I decided to take a look at depictions of physical intimacy in four recently released games. I don’t believe my motivation was purely so that Gamer Melodico could be the first videogame blog in history to feature a Glee screengrab but it’s entirely possible. At any rate, only the God of War…
Chuck actor Zac Levi checks out the Nintendo booth at E3. Photo from Nintendo America’s twitter feed
One life to live? More like 20 Games to Play. This actor looks enthralled. Photo from Nintendo America’s twitter feed
Steven Spielberg checking out the Nintendo booth. Photo from Nintendo America’s twitter feed Click to view
Seriously. These life sized Halo Reach statues are too realistic to tempt me to climb over the barrier. As snapped by Stephen Totilo at the L.A. Convention Center.
Even though guests are watching a game, not playing one, the World Cup viewing area is one of the most crowded screens at E3.
What ever happened to the once-mighty SimCity franchise? Recently I was looking through some boxes and stumbled across a dusty copy of Wil Wright’s “Spore” next to an equally neglected copy of SimCity 4. Seeing the two games made me wonder: What ever happened to the once-mighty SimCity franchise? Oh, certainly the “Sim” franchise is…
At the very impressionable age of four, my son loved Grand Theft Auto. This article is reprinted with the permission of Bitmob.com More specifically, the version he played was the Hot Coffee moddable, San Andreas. Before Child Protective Services bestows upon me the prestigious honor of father of the year, allow me to explain. Gaming…
Last year, Jimmy Fallon beat Tiger Woods at his own game — his own Wii game, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10. Last night, Fallon, continued his winning streak against the fabulously attired Ian Poulter. How does he do it?
In games there are three basic ways we experience architecture: as game design, as a personalized space, or through a hybrid of the two. I could tell you how many steps make up the streets rising like stairways, and the degree of the arcade’s curves, and what kind of zinc scales cover the roofs; but…
I can’t think of another game so destroyed by its dialogue as Splinter Cell: Conviction; not by bad lines alone (which are nothing novel in gaming) but by the way Ubisoft’s designers and programmers used them. It could live on, maybe, as a cautionary tale in design meetings: “your idea would poison our game, sure…
Life is full of moral decisions to make, every minute of every day we are faced with choices that can affect the rest of our day or indeed, the rest of our life. Turn your attention to movies and literature and you can also see the playing out of morally important decisions, should Neo have…
You’re not welcome at this year’s Games Convention Online. No, the former GamesCon, which runs from July 8 to July 10, is open to industry folk only due to a lack of interest from the public. It sounds like GamesCom killed the GamesCon.
I have a couple topics to write about boiling around in my head, but this one seems to be the most timely considering the rumor going around of a Shadow of the Colossus/Ico HD re-release next year. Shadow of the Colossus (and not Beatles Rock Band, inserting snarky jab at the New York Times here)…
Much like telling an erotic story within a Victorian backdrop seems ever so sexy, human depravity juxtaposed against a seemingly golden age of good, moral values is darkly comic and that much more disturbing. In the future, the ‘60s never happened. Or at least, that’s what we are led to believe in the alternate history…
At present, the word “tension” is almost exclusively considered negative. The quest of the modern man is to reduce tension, or stress, which are known causes of disease and emotional distress. The desired state is one of complete relaxation. However, in the artistic world, we find that many descriptions of good works imply tension: taut,…
As told to Kotaku on August 13, 2009. Just something to keep in mind as you check for updates about Sonic Colors
Based upon part six of the Mimesis as Make-Believe serial. In Walton’s make-believe theory of representation, there are in effect two different ways in which representations can be constructed: they may be perceptual in nature i.e. making use of one or more of our senses, in which case they are considered a depiction, or they…
Social games aren’t new–they’re just games you play with other people. Social games began about 5000 years ago. With some help from the team at Disruptor Beam, we’ve put together a little chart that traces the history of social games from its origins in Ancient Egypt all the way to the present. I’m using the…
Microsoft has a storied history of losing some of its biggest and most recognizable Xbox executives, the suits who manned the company’s E3 and CES keynotes. Today, two more names joined that growing list, Robbie Bach and J Allard. They’re not the only ones to move on from the Xbox division over the past eight…
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