Tag Archives: video games
Station 37
This will be quick: play this game. The game is Station 37, a game made through some kind of weekend jam thing in Canadaland. It is old-school stuff, but the design is impeccable, and it has some really cool firefighting … Continue reading
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On Dear Esther
THERE ARE SPOILERS FOR DEAR ESTHER IN THIS POST. As faithful readers will know, I posted a transcript of the Dear Esther trailer and some thoughts about it a while back. I bought the game on release, and I just finished it a … Continue reading
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Current Times 24
1. The Atlantic points out that the HTML code for a pretty racist ad about jobs contains the class tag “yellow girl.” It is, presumably, referring to the Asian woman in the video. This is racist for a load of … Continue reading
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Stories That Suck
Let me give you a quick recap: Jason Schreier wrote a post on his blog responding to Andrew Groen’s twitter assertion that “game stories are near universally shit.” Schreier gives an appropriate and smart response, suggesting that games criticism should develop … Continue reading
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A Slightly More Theoretical Take on To The Moon
So yesterday I posted about To The Moon, a game that I really liked, and that post was really just a “hey, look, this game, play it!” kind of post. This post, on the other hand, is going to be … Continue reading
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To the Moon (part 2)
My previous post on To The Moon can be found here. This is a slightly smaller, more game-oriented post about To The Moon. Play it. The game does a number of things right, the most important being that it presents … Continue reading
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To The Moon
I woke up this past Saturday and started playing To The Moon. I’ve had it for a while, just sitting on my computer, and in a holiday haze of stormy bullets and biological shocks I kind of let it slip … Continue reading
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A Quick Note on Sloterdijk and the Bioshock Series
I’m reading the first volume of Peter Sloterdijk’s Spheres series, titled Bubbles, which is essentially about how space is created. More particularly, it is about how psychological and communicatory practices are enveloped in a struggle that shapes and constitutes space and … Continue reading
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The Bioshock Series So Far…
THIS POST HAS SUPER SPOILERS ABOUT THE BIOSHOCK GAMES I played the first two Bioshock games this month in the spirit of Bioshock Infinite coming out sometime in the future. I really liked the games, and I don’t have a … Continue reading
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Video Game Pacifism
I’ve been emailed this article by several people now, and I think that I should probably comment on it now. The Wall Street Journal profiled a series of Skyrim videos about “Felix the Peaceful Monk.” The basic idea of the character … Continue reading
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