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When Kotaku editorial director Joel Johnson and east coast reporter Michael Fahey launch into an argument over which video game retailer offers the superior shopping experience, one withholds a terrible secret that renders the other's argument moot. More »
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From time to time we like to publish a post from our ceiling-walking neighbors down under. Today Kotaku Australia debates Gizmodo Australia about the question of the century: Should gamers buy an iPad 2? More »
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Stephen Totilo has left the building, and is as we speak making a beeline for Fox News studios to talk the top games of 2010 in the Strategy Room. Who wants to watch? More »
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There's fun to be had and lessons to be learned about cellular biology in CellCraft, as long as you can weather the argument over whether or not it's a creationist take on the subject. More »
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We talked about the best games of the first half of 2010 on Kotaku Talk Radio today and took your nominations by phone. What did we pick and why? Download and listen. More »
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The Chicago Sun-Times film critic has finally revisited his old contention that games can never be art, to defend it "in principle," and to dispute about that which cannot be disputed. More »
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Real Estate experts from Coldwell Banker and RE/MAX Allegiance weigh in on the pros and cons of the ten coolest video game castles in an inspired Maxim piece this month. More »
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L.B. Jeffries over at Banana Pepper Martinis has apparently had it up to here with the 'how to write reviews' debate, and it sounds like the upcoming roundtable was maybe kinda the last straw. More »
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Once a month or so, N'Gai Croal and I debate a video game. Usually we do it well after a game's been released. We call our exchanges Vs. Mode, co-publish them on both of our blogs, and hope that people have enough bathroom time to read them. More »
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Back in April, Dan Rubenfield (Ultima Online, Star Wars Galaxies, etc.) ranted, raved, and put MMO developers 'on notice.' And, at the end, admonished developers to "quit making PC games. It’s a waste of time and money." Unsurprisingly, people hit back, and now over at GameSetWatch, Joe Ludwig (producer of Pirates of the Burning Sea) has a snappy little response detailing six reasons why MMOs are just plain harder to develop for consoles versus PCs. Does that mean it won't start happening in greater numbers? Of course not: More »
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GamerBytes, the new blog in the Game Developer/Gamasutra/GameSetWatch line up, chatted with some developers to get their opinions on the XBLA delisting issue. The little three parter is a nice look at a couple of view points. Unsurprisingly, opinions are mixed — some are staunchly opposed, while some (like the cofounder of Merscom, Buku Sudoku developer) think it's a fabulous idea: More »
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Last week, Douglas Wilson made an impassioned argument for why the term gamer needs to go; this week, Rene Patnode, a fellow soldier in the grad school trenches, responds with his take on why the term gamer does not need to go the way of the dodo: More »
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The time-honored tradition of stodgy men arguing over things they know nothing about continued in England during last Friday's game censorship debate in the House of Commons, with MP Keith Vaz showing us how it's done while speaking in defense of Julian Brazier's bill to add a censorship level above the British Board of Film Classification. In comparing the interactivity of video games to movies, Vaz unleashed this little gem: More »
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In typical fashion, one post on the games-as-art debate spawns a response. This is one debate I actually enjoy watching, since the evidence people haul out in support their positions is fascinating. We go from the Impressionists to 300 in this Gamasutra essay by E. Daniel Arey, and he tackles the question of why the 'art inherent to games' does indeed matter. Just like any good artistically driven medium, games have pushed the boundaries since their creation, he says: More »
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Speaking of games being juvenile (maybe), Steve Gaynor threw down the gauntlet over at Fullbright with some incendiary comments that were of course going to start a firestorm, and were indeed designed to. His contention? The video games are going to be stuck in the same ghetto as comic books — always marginalized, forever juvenile, doomed to never being 'a relevant cultural medium': More »
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What do you get when you put Everquest II producer John Blakely, Matt Firor of ZeniMax Online Studios, Mark Jacobs of EA Mythic, Raph Coster of Areae, and GoPets CEO Erik Bethke into one room to discuss opportunities for increasing revenue and reaching new players in the MMO space? From what I saw this afternoon, you get a debate over microtransactions versus traditional subscription payment systems. I attended a panel called "Where are the Biggest Online Gaming Opportunities?" which was supposed to about experimenting with new MMO design and innovative new revenue models, but it quickly because a debate of old school MMO systems versus the new ones. The subject of microtransactions has popped up a lot this week, most notably in the Dave Perry Q&A from earlier in the day, where Perry sings the praises of the ad-supported, microtransaction funded business model. More »
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Yes, it made the newspaper because I put it there and no, it's not game related, not really. But I thought perhaps you'd still want to read it, that and I mentioned it last night in my Night Note. More »
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If you live in the California, PA area and are free tomorrow night, you could be in for a real treat. JT Lawyer Guy will be at the California University of Pennsylvania campus on Tuesday the 30th at 7 p.m., debating author and culture critic Gerard Jones over violent video games and their sale to children. Jones is the author of "Killing Monsters: Why Children Need Fantasy, Super Heroes and Make-Believe Violence," a book that explores the importance of games, comics, and other fantasy violence in helping children learn to deal with anger, violence, and sexuality. More »
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Presidential hopeful Mark Warner recently held a press conference in the MySpace of MMOs, Second Life. The coverage of the event was decidedly subdued, and I've seen very little followup worth reporting. More »
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Roger Ebert took the time to watch Silent Hill, I say that with all sincerity, because they didn't show a preview for him, he had to actually go to the movies to see it. More »
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After getting back from Boulder, Colorado, Jim Emerson wrote up quite a lengthy explanation of how he researched and formed his opinions for his debate with Roger Ebert about the whole "are video games art" question. More »
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Seattle-based movie critic and editor of RogerEbert.com Jim Emerson dropped me a line over the weekend in response to my rantish blurb about the video games as art "debate" he took part in with Roget Ebert last week in Boulder. More »
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Wonderland directs readers to a debate taking place over at MMORPG.com on whether or not established properties are good fits to be turned into MMORPGs. Jon Wood and Dana Massey find themselves on opposite sides of the fence on the issue. Wood maintains that using existing franchises leads to disappointment when the game ultimately doesn't live up to player expectation. Massey defends using existing IPs because the worlds we're escaping to via MMOs are worlds we may have already escaped into via film (Star Wars) or literature (Lord of the Rings). I'm siding with Massey, despite Wood being right in saying that gamers will often be let down when their favorite world becomes an MMO reality. Even if they were going to be butchered, I'd still love to see The Wheel of Time series become a solid MMO. More »
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Games Industry reports that Atari founder and Chuck E. Cheese mastermind, Nolan Bushnell, thinks that the Revolution controller is a pretty good idea. He thinks the controller's simple design will help ease people into gaming who have become "interface phobic." What about people who are afraid of swinging their arm around at a video game? What about their fears? More »
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After we gathered some impressions from around the web, Next Generation pulled aside some developers, journalists and executives for their response to the Nintendo Revolution. More »
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Gamasutra reexamines the rivalry between the DS and PSP. The article is a collection of reader feedback on the two portable platforms. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=126092&view=rss&microfeed=true I wrote up a little summary of the Hot Coffee donnybrook for the Rocky Mountain News. It was due a week before it ran, so it was a bit of fun trying to write something in the middle of the turmoil that was supposed to be forward looking. More »
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I finally figured out a non-server crashing way of putting my Fox News Channel appearance up on the site. Check out the tiny video and remember that my name is neither Steve nor Bloyce. More »
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