True North, Strong and Free

The Long Dark is a fantastic game. There’s something so Canadian about ending up nearly dying in a cold, unforgiving forest. And like surviving in the wilderness, prolonged existence promotes ennui, making the player long for something that’s not simply hiding in a Quonset hut from wolves. There’s a sandbox version of the game, and […]

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Interesting Video Game Controversies

… that didn’t involve Grand Theft Auto or Mortal Kombat. With the recent Supreme Court ruling that video games are a form of Free Speech protected by the First Amendment, it seems like a good time to look back at some of the controversies that led the nation’s highest court to get involved in the […]

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Was DJ Hero a Flop?

The numbers weren’t so good, and DJ’ing isn’t really a group activity. Also, it’s really expensive. And apparently, awesome. Is there hope? Honestly, it’s going to be hard to overcome these challenges. There is already a low margin on plastic instruments, so it’s going to be hard to drop the price on the game and […]

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A Virtual Bank With Real Woes

I guess times are bad all over the universe. Uh-oh! Another big bank is the subject of a depositor run amid charges its chairman has run off with customers’ money. Thankfully, this scandal is taking place in Eve Online, a space-age virtual reality created by CCP, a games developer and Iceland’s coolest company. But these […]

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Star Wars: The Old Republic

This is singularly more awesome than the entire Ep1-3 trilogy! Too bad it’s not actually a movie, and is a cinematic for the new MMO. No MMO could even come close to this level of awesomeness. http://www.gametrailers.com/player/49936.html

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10 Most Ridiculously Stereotyped Fighting Game Characters

I like the Scottish guy with the urinary tract infection… Topless Robot – The 10 Most Ridiculously Stereotyped Fighting Game Characters Street Fighter II has a lot to answer for. Sure, it founded an entire subculture of videogames and offered a nicely complex tournament fighter that holds up even today. But it also relied on […]

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