<![CDATA[Kotaku: Editorial]]> http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/kotaku.com.png <![CDATA[Kotaku: Editorial]]> http://kotaku.com/tag/editorial http://kotaku.com/tag/editorial <![CDATA[The Archbishop of Denver Tells You about Violent Video Games and the Rights of Parents]]> In this essay originally penned for First Things, Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput discusses the recent Supreme Court decision that granted video games First Amendment protection. Opening with his memories of the 1999 Columbine High School shooting, Chaput is clearly against the decision. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5818217&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Ugly Fantasies Of Revenge]]> Beyond Holocaust museums, Holocaust documentaries, and Holocaust action movies we now have the Holocaust first-person shooter. This is our chance to virtually be an escaped Jewish prisoner of Auschwitz, heavily armed, with hundreds of Nazis in our sights. Catharsis? More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5710755&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[A Long Way To Go]]> Former Kotaku contributor Alice Taylor responds to Game Developer magazine's choices for The Game Developer 50, which highlighted gaming's "important accomplishments of the last year (give or take)... in the categories of art, design, programming, business, and evangelism." More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5517512&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[In Defense of — and a Salute to — The Pro]]> Two jackasses baiting an Xbox Live moderator and getting banned isn't worth much outrage. But when they doctor a video and expect everyone to believe it on the knee-jerk faith that mods are fascists, that just insults your intelligence. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5479594&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[What Do You Do When You Get Stuck In A Video Game?]]> I am so stuck on a video game right now. Should I rage quit, read a walkthrough or just cry out to the Internet via random forums to help me? More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5421091&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Role of Music Games]]> I got kicked out of choir in middle school and ever since, I've limited my study of music to whatever Guitar Hero and Rock Band have bothered to teach me. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5377636&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[International Relations And Video Games — An Almost-Interview]]> For four years, I studied everything about East Asian security dilemmas and conflicts in post-Soviet Russia. What good is my international relations major if I can't inflict it on a game developer? More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5361894&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Torture In Video Games]]> At PAX, I had the good fortune to catch Bethesda's Brink demo. While there was a lot of cool stuff in the game worth blogging about, what stuck with me was the use of torture in the game. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5353873&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[PAX Panel Attempts To Define “Gamer,” Sparks Casual Controversy]]> The PAX panel, Game Culture: How Gamers Impact Society & How Policy Affects Gamer Culture, had some mildly interesting moments – but it got really interesting right at the end, during Q&A. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5354283&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Journalists In Video Games — An Anniversary Celebration]]> One year ago today I started officially blogging for Kotaku. What better way to celebrate this anniversary than by ticking off a list of journalists that appear in video games? More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5336228&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[GLAAD Panel: Pearls of Wisdom And Points Of Discussion]]> I've got a re-cap of last Saturday's Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation right here, but if you're looking for quick quotes and interesting issues to rehash, here are a few gems. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5318894&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Our Missing Video Game Robot Hero]]> Osamu Tezuka's beloved boy robot, Astro Boy, defined an art form, inspired a nation, and is a cultural icon worthy of the Robot Hall of Fame. So why doesn't he get more video games? More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5271138&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[High or Low? Fantasy in Dragon Age]]> Dragon Age: Origins Lead Writer David Gaider and BioWare heads Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk have different ideas about what high and low fantasy is; which may foretell a genre crisis for the game. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5194643&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Columbine Author on Winnenden Shooting]]> Almost ten years ago, I was on the grass at Clement Park adjacent Columbine High School covering what would become the world's most iconic school shooting. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5176862&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[How Seriously Should We Take Game Addiction?]]> A Chinese gamer swallows razor blades in a suicide attempt, Daniel Petric shoots his mom and Brandon Crisp runs away from home – anyone see a pattern here? More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5129890&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Would You Buy An Apple Gaming Console?]]> The prospect of another company jumping into the console market is laughable to most people, and for good reasons. It isn't a market you can just leap right into. You need connections, capital, and consumers hungry for any product you put on the market. Over at Cnet's The Digital Home, Don Reisinger suggests that only one such company exists - Apple.
Apple has the infrastructure in place through iTunes to create a real value proposition for those that want to extend the capability of their console beyond gaming and has the cash — about $20 billion — to not only invest in the best components on the market, but in an online gaming experience that could rival Xbox Live. That cash could also be put to good use by acquiring major developers (did someone say Take-Two?) that could go from third-party powerhouse to Apple's first-party publisher."
Having just bought an iPod Touch last week despite having a perfectly functional Zune with 10 times the storage space, I can see Don's point. Apple has gone beyond making products. Now they simply create things people want. Would you want an Apple gaming console? Apple is the only other company that can release a game console [The Digital Home] More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5050109&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Best of Categories, Which Ones Should We Keep, Lose?]]> Every year I vote on a number of different game of the year, best of E3, best of whatever awards and every year I run into the same problem: The categories never really work for me. Often it ends up feeling like you're trying to squeeze a round peg into a square hole and hope for the best. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5031096&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Turner's GameTap Shutters Editorial, Boots Staff]]> GameTap, the on-demand game portal owned by Turner Broadcasting, is closing the books on its editorial division to focus solely on games, according to a community post by content vice president Ricardo Sanchez. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5011386&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Wii Fit: Innovation in Gaming or Marketing?]]> I'm on the road again today with my wife, son and two dogs. Trish is driving us back from El Paso, Texas to Denver. I spent a longish weekend visiting my mom and step-dad and since I'm going to be reviewing Wii Fit soon for Kotaku, I decided to bring along my Wii and a copy of the game. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5011085&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Going Off the Deep End: Has Gaming Grown Up?]]> We talk about innovation in a number of ways in the game industry, some of which are very far off in the grand scheme of things: erudite discussions of game play, biomechanics, tailoring an experience to each individual. We have the less esoteric, more realistic discussions of what can be done with games now, and that sort of 'innovation,' I think, is really more a discussion of games 'growing up' and heading into more mature territory. Perhaps some of these debates are being cast in the wrong terms, or at least, there are multiple avenues of discussion to be explored. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=379104&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[What King of Fighters XII Taught Me About Diablo 3]]> I've long been mulling over exactly how a theoretical Diablo III should look...for years now. You see, Diablo is a 2D franchise entering a 3D world. And its graphical style, as trivial and superficial as the topic may seem, will affect the way the game feels to play (which many have probably noticed in 3D Diablo clones like Dungeon Runners that feel distinctly less satisfying). More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=363595&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[How Long Until DLC Adopts The Rental System?]]> With larger hard drives and faster bandwidth, a future in which players are downloading a majority of new releases isn't all that unimaginable since eliminating a retail middle man could make the prospect very enticing for publishers and developers. But what about the sexier aspects to this digital model? With such a digital infrastucture, these oft-prophecized downloadable purchases only scratch the surface. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=352844&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Why Isn't CES Filling E3's Gaping, Festering Hole?]]> I'm by no means an E3 or CES (Consumer Electronics Show) veteran, having attended both shows only twice (and the "classic" E3 only once). But compared to foreign events like Leipzig's Games Convention, Berlin's IFA (tech show that rivals CES) or Tokyo's TGS, the two American shows had/have a distinct identity from their overseas counterparts. Maybe it's the attendance of people with similar values to my own (aka sucking both gasoline and fast food with no abandon), but this similarity, however trivial it may be, has made me wonder why CES isn't filling in the gaps of E3. While I'd never expect developers to attend in mass (and frankly, there isn't room), why don't Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo use the CES stage as a launching ground for their next year of products? More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=344305&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Open World vs. Real World, And My Feelings on the Burnout Paradise Demo]]> I am a lazy bastard. And maybe it's for this reason, among a slew of others I'm sure, that I enjoy playing games so much. Run around and play football? Too sweaty, I'll load Madden. Steal cars and beat up prostitutes? Too much work scrubbing the blood stains, just give me GTA. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=335235&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Why Doesn't Xbox LIVE Have Age Matching?]]> Last night I signed on LIVE for a little Team Fortress 2 fun. You see, after Mass Effect dropped, I blacked out for a few weeks. When I woke, aside from realizing that a monkey had written my posts for some time (the experiment was a success, btw), that Orange Box was sorely in need of some attention. So I played some TF2. And then I remembered, again, what I despise most about Xbox LIVE. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=332520&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Super Mario Galaxy Japanese Retail Copy]]> Before popping in Super Mario Galaxy this afternoon, I had to dust my Nintendo Wii. Besides the occasional Wii Sports game, the machine hasn't gotten much use. It's kinda just sat there in the living room, waiting for games — not mini-games, but games. After an unnecessarily long drought, the games are finally starting to hit. Third party-wise Zack & Wiki, which is fantastic, dropped, and today sees the release of Super Mario Galaxy in Japan. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=317567&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Australian Editorial Supports Pre-K Gaming]]> Well sort of... More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=298172&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Wired on Gaming Parents]]> Wired's Clive Thompson called me up a few weeks back to talk to me about how I deal with Tristan playing video games. My 5-year-old son, for those of you who don't know, has written game reviews, play tested hardware and jammed with me on Guitar Hero. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=250678&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Rocky: Ban Video Game Ads]]> What I don't get, besides the fact no one on the editorial board came over to talk to me about this when they were writing this and I was still working there, is why the Rocky Mountain News editorial is so deliberately missing the point of this story. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=249010&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Developers Protest Slamdance Game Festival]]> It appears the news we broke last week of Slamdance removing the Columbine game from their lists of finalists and why has created quite the shitstorm, for lack of a better word. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=227145&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[KotakuFixu: Sony and Nintendo's Future Bloggers]]> OK, Sony and Nintendo won't do it, so we're going to do it for them. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=222439&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[EA Punishes Spanish Site For Negative Comments]]> Well this isn't very nice. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=218624&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Life on a Train]]> I've been riding the Light Rail from my house in suburbia to downtown Denver since January. And while I play games on either my PSP or DS Lite every day, twice a day, I have yet to run into another person doing the same... until today. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=207213&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[E3 Needs to Change, But How?]]>
The weekend's rumblings about the possible cancellation or total overhaul of E3 left me feeling very conflicted. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=190902&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[AP Stylebook Gets Game (Boy)]]> The new AP Stylebooks are here. The new AP Stylebooks are here. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=189419&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Games Lack Culture]]>
The Gamesblog's Aleks Krotoski makes a case for more British in British games. While I applaud the idea, I think her argument that games are "created for an American market" is fatally flawed. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=187383&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Are Games Getting Easier?]]> Twitch Guru's Mark Raby has an interesting article up about have become easier over the years. He points to arcade games like Pac-Man, which had a seemingly infinite number of levels and were hard to master and compares them to today's games with their endless saves and scalable difficulty settings. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=187349&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Another Msoft Blogger is Born]]> Microsoft seems to be the only of the big three that seem to get the power of blogs, even the ones written by company employees. Major Nelson's site is a tremendous success and Gamerscoreblog is becoming a must read. The latest addition to Microsoft's blogging stables is David Weller, the community manager at Msoft's Game Technology Group. LetsKillDave promises to dish the Msoft approved dirt on game development tech by developers for developers. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=183250&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Do We Need Instructions?]]> When was the last time you read a game manual? More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=182443&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Buckle Your Seatbelts, We're In for a Bumpy Ride]]> It looks like we're in for a busy summer afterall. Last July, we were the first to speak to the Federal Trade Commission about their decision to launch an investigation into Take-Two and allegations that the company used deceptive marketing practices in selling Hot Coffee-enabled Grand Theft Auto. More »
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