Gaming in Iraq
Game Girl Advance linked to this blog entry about gaming in Iraq. It makes Iraq seem less foreign.
View ArticleGus Van Sant movies as video games
Greg, of Greg.org, writes about Gus Van Sant’s new movie, Elephant, the techniques it uses, and how it, and Van Sant’s previous movie Gerry, are like video games.
View ArticleHow many women play games?
Both Game Girl Advance (or, at least, people commenting there) and Chris Crawford doubt the rather positive demographic numbers from a recent ESA press release.
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I am, in fact, not dead. Although I do have a cold. Some random stuff to prove I am at least physically present: Thad exposes the truth behind the PS3 concept graphic that can be found on many...
View ArticleWill Wright gets a prize from a Hollywood organization
Will Wright gets a prize from a Hollywood organization (via Gewgaw) Cool, and as Robin mentioned, cool because Will makes very un-Hollywood-ish games (or perhaps this is why he got the award?). It also...
View ArticleGaming convention in Iraq / ’300′ parody by VG Cats
Ziggurat Con – The World’s First War Zone Game Convention? | Gamegrene.com A gaming convention in Iraq, how cool. Via Penny Arcade. VG Cats – Koopa! Best 300 parody so far.
View ArticleNew York Times op-ed about the potential of the games medium
Daniel Radosh has written an op-ed about the state of the interactive medium in the New York Times. Some choice quotes: Games boast ever richer and more realistic graphics, but this has actually...
View ArticleEA Calls Fox Out on “Insulting” Mass Effect Inaccuracies
Remember that ‘infamous’ sex scene in Mass Effect? Well, Fox News, fabled U.S. news organization, reported on it. And apparently they slightly got the facts wrong. EA is doing the sensible thing and is...
View ArticleRichard Bartle’s pro-game rant
This is over a month old, but still well worth blogging about. Richard Bartle has written an excellent rant for The Guardian following the release of the Byron Report, which said that games are not the...
View ArticleGerman Ministry of Foreign Affairs + Computer Games = ?
Following on yesterday’s pro-game rant by Richard Bartle, here is a blog post by Jens Schroeder showing that the political establishment in Germany is not much more enlightened than in the U.K. I was...
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