After three-years and fourty-thousand checks of my email, the Starcraft II beta finally arrived. I guess one of the perks of keeping a blog is that you get access to the newest things in video games as they ...
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For years now the PC games industry has been in an inexorable arms race. Once it was for higher resolutions, vaguely recognizable faces and bloom guaranteed to win the owner first prize in the village petunia growing competition. ...
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I recently read ‘A Trilogy in 7 Parts’ over at Hit Self-Destruct (heart!). In the first part, Mitch Krpata exposes—rather earnestly—his feelings about the diminishing allure of video game journalism. But unlike his contemporaries in the field of ...
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It’s a pet topic of certain authors on this blog to talk about a so-called postmodern turn in contemporary games. After reading about postmodernity in gaming on this blog, a fellow reviewer and journalist recommended that I play ...
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I recently read this post at Sexy Videogameland which made me think about all the old games I played. Consequently, I went around to my parents' and dug up all the old boxes that belonged to an array ...
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Synaesthetics in Modern Games
Two articles have recently got me thinking about the interactions we are seeing between the visual elements of games and the aural. In this article on Osmos at Create Digital Music [via Critical Distance], Peter Kim discusses with ...
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