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You might quibble with exactly how important British writer Naomi Alderman says video games are, but if you've ever felt that games don't get their due by the public at large, here's a verbal salvo to keep handy: More »
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I mentioned Eludamos a while back: it's an open access academic journal dealing with games. They released volume 2, issue 1 last month, and there's plenty of interesting reading to be had, if you're into that sort of thing. Ian Bogost mentioned one particularly interesting article on the indie/mainstream divide in games, which uses the independent film industry as a comparison point. Well, sort of. The author expounds that the very things that generally distinguish independent films from their mainstream counterparts break down when it comes to the indie/mainstream game divide. It's not so much an issue of opposition to a dominant norm when it comes to games; on the contrary, it's a matter of tweaking mechanics and other aspects while still fitting into a mainstream framework: More »
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After having some fun at Call of Duty's expense (in a way that I thought was both funny and not playing off Hollywood stereotypes), NBC's The Office is taking on Second Life later tonight. It looks like Dwight K. Schrute will be exploring the virtual world, hopefully without any encounters with snap-on genitalia. I have high hopes, so this had better be really funny. Or really really funny. More »
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Newsweek's head tech editor N'Gai Croal appeared recently on CNN's "American Morning", bringing some mainstream sanity to the discussion surrounding the impending release of Rockstar's Manhunt 2. While Croal performed admirably, anchor Kiran Chetry did her part to dumb the content down for the CNN viewership's understanding, injecting the proper amount of basic cable news fear-mongering we've come to expect. Fortunately, N'Gai addressed the notion that our children will be going to hell in a handbasket if they perform a Wii-mote style stealth kill. More »
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"Sony's new PlayStation 3 video game has gone from top dog to underdog in record time." More »
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FiringSquad has an in-depth article in which they quiz mainstream media outlet writers about games writing for the average joe: More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=180211&view=rss&microfeed=true Some of the big papers around the country (and the AP) ran interesting reaction stories to the Playstation 3 delay today. More »
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