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NPR Has Good Taste In Games
I've made fun of NPR more than my fair share, but Heather Chaplin recently did an interesting piece regarding the "games that got away." About 7 minutes of radio gives credit to three incredible games we've seen this year: Portal, Everyday Shooter, and Desktop Tower Defense.
It's worth listening to just to hear Jonathan Mak call Everyday Shooter a "celebration of geometric sexuality." And, of course, I don't know that any Kotaku readers have overlooked any of these three games—but in case you have, yeah, it's time to check them out. I just wish that the radio piece said a little less about GLaDOS, since her evolution of character is one of the most fascinating and surprising (yet gloriously inevitable) elements of Portal. Still, hopefully well-written stories like this on NPR help these games sink into the mainstream consciousness as much as they have our own.
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NPR Covers Gold Farming
NPR covered Gold Farming as a story on today's Morning Edition. Anyone who has read articles on this topic and are still confused about the working conditions or even how the work gets paid to these gamers, can listen to Louisa Lim interview which compares gold farmers to low-paid workers making Nike shoes. It also covers the social issues that Gold Farming has impacted in the real world such as anti-Chinese sentiment from American players. Instead of just focusing in on the gaming culture, the broadcast focuses on the money aspect, which is probably why this has actually become a story in other media outlets. Although it's another negative story on gaming, it's at least articulate and doesn't have a certain you-know-who from a certain southern state. More »
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National Parks Killer? Video Games
Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon and Big Bend. National Public Radio, where I get all my gaming news, did a piece on how video games are hurting America's national parks. No, really. NPR's website has a summary of the broadcast: More »
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New NPR Gaming Podcast: Press Start
Over at Game Set Watch, we see news that NPR has decided to officially sanctioned the random mumblings of three gaming mouthbreathers into a cheap microphone and released via RSS and MP3. A podcast, in other words. At least you won't have to listen to Xeni Jardin's shrill, nightmarish wail, though: More »
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NPR Does Brain Age
We love it when real journalists talk about games. Somehow, they always seem nerdier about it than you or I could ever hope to be. For example, Robert Holt talking about Brain Age over at NPR. More »
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