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Grisly murders, deadly nightmares, and a marriage proposal followed immediately by a one-night-stand? What exactly is going on in Atlus' Catherine? the game's official website gives us the skinny. More »
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We pulled the top 100 highest rated games from review aggregation website GameRankings.com and broke them down by primary motivation - the driving force behind the heroes, anti-heroes, competitors, and god-like beings inhabiting those acclaimed titles. More »
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Dead Rising 2 is a zombie game with bite – a darkly humorous exploration of the ultimate power wielded by multinational pharmaceuticals and the corruption that creates. More »
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No matter who is brought in to write a story or dialogue, the industry still treats the written word in such a utilitarian way that it has a second-class citizenship among the other art forms comprising a video game. More »
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Wait, Saint's Row 2 has a plot? I thought it was all about shooting liquid waste at people and all things Gary Busey... go figure. 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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Julian "Rabbit" Murdoch over at Gamers With Jobs took the trek to Irrational Games' studios in Quincy, MS and had a chat with ken Levine about BioShock. Of course, in and of itself, this is nothing new. Levine has been interviewed up one side and down the other about his creepy underwater brainchild, but what sets this article apart is it's attention to the details of the story and not just the gameplay. There's a great breakdown of the game's plot as well as a showing the comparisons between it and Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. If you are a BioShock fan and looking to learn more than just surface details, this is a great piece of weekend reading. Flynn De Marco More »
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Earlier, wrote an article about a game called Metronome and posted a trailer. Thanks to a link provided by commenter, Psychotext, I was able to check out a page on the game on creator, Tarsier Studios' website. There's more about the plot here and while it's not much, gives us at least a little more information on a game I'd like to see more of. There are also several screenshots that look pretty amazing and remind me a bit of American McGee's Alice. More »
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Wild Arms 5 is officially under development, according to Sony's Wild Arms website. New flash on the site say that Wild Arms: The Vth Vanguard is coming. More »
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S. John Ross' Big List of RPG Plots strips down the endless weak storylines and repetitive side-quests of role-playing games to single paragraphs of generic description. More »
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