How Making Games Helped Her Deal With Evil
In the autumn of 2006 the game designer Brenda Romero suffered what she describes as a severe assault. In the weeks following the attack she lay numb in bed.
Go read this fascinating Simon Parkin piece about the relationships between shooting games and gun manufacturers.
Some great morning reading: Simon Parkin on "Who Spilled Hot Coffee" - the story behind San Andreas's big sex scandal.
A DS In The Red Light District
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Simon Parkin's written a piece over on GameSetWatch about a little trip he took to to Amsterdam. Nothing saucy or inhaled, mind you, just a bunch of impressions of one of the city's more adult tourist attractions. That and the brief tale of a walk past a young girl, in one of said attraction's shop "windows", and her…