Can Zynga Pass Off ‘Social Mechanics’ as Innovation?
Innovation is a word we heard a lot in the world of game production. It’s one of those buzz words that developers like to use when promoting an upcoming title or doing some sort of…
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A Fascinating Short Film About an Augmented Reality Future
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK_cdkpazjI I skipped seeing Total Recall this weekend, and I have a hunch that this seven minute short is better than all two full hours of that film. It too is about the future, but…
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Video Game Characters Who Would Dominate the Olympics
I doubt I’m the first person to ever think of this, but screw it, I’m doing it anyway. With the Olympics drawing to a close, I wondered who from the video game world might dominate…
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Five Awesome Video Game Documentaries
So listen, guys. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but I’m kind of way into video games. I’m so into them that approaching them the way highbrow literary critics approach books is kind of my…
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Streets of the Shawn of the Dead
(click to enlarge) Well here’s a game that I would pay an obscene amount of money to make a reality. Where’s the Kickstarter page damnit? But sadly, this side-scrolling Shawn of the Dead beat-em-up in…
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Why We Won’t See an Xbox Smash Bros.
(click to enlarge) I’m still skeptical whether or not Playstation All Stars will turn out to be a good game or not, but the fact remains that it’s the very least a good idea. Nintendo…
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Why Video Games Can Be the Greatest Storytelling Mechanism of All
I just finished with the first two of five chapters of Telltale’s The Walking Dead video game. I’d heard good things both from critics and friends (our own Dave Bast, for one), and I thought…
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Well How About That…
(click to enlarge) I always kind of assumed that Valve games took place in some sort of alternate dimensions USA, like the DC Universe with Gotham, Metropolis, Star City, etc. I didn’t realize that they…
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Five of My Character Flaws Revealed Through Video Games
Time for a trip down honesty lane. I’ve been playing a fair amount of games lately, and I got around to wondering if the decisions I made in them actually translated to my real life…