The Value of Less Restrictive Gameplay
How many hours of gameplay does it take to make a game worth $60? 20 hours? 30? Before buying a game like Dead Space, Bioshock, or any other linear one-way titles, I usually ask someone…
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If Video Games Were Comics
(click to enlarge) This isn’t the first time we’ve featured the art of Rusty Shackles, and it certainly won’t be the last. The illustrator extraordinaire is back with a new series that imagines what it…
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Five TV Shows That Would Make Great Video Games
I’m currently through one of two chapters of The Walking Dead video game, recommended by our own Dave Bast some time ago. I’ll probably have further thoughts on it once I finish the next segment,…
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Mario Katharsis: Red Dead Redemption
When a nerd decides to study theatre seriously, Aristotle’s Poetics is bound to come up. One of the major tenets of the work is catharsis (or katharsis, if you want to be really Greek-y: opa!),…
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A Gallery of Assassin’s Creed Fanart by Jael Kolkin
Now I’m not 100% sure of the statistics here but I’m willing to venture that the commercials I’ve seen for Assassin’s Creed III are far and away the earliest commercials before the release of a…
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15 Video Game Memes that We Enjoy
It’s been a pretty banner year for video games. We’ve had our ups, we’ve had our downs. Clearly I think we all wish Diablo 3 never happened. But we’ve always got a new Assassin’s coming…
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Avenge Hyrule
(click to enlarge) Yeah, I’ve seen better photoshop projects in my day, but there was just something about the idea behind this that struck me as rather cool, and I think the transformation works. Anyone…
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The Video Game Cigarette
I hate smoking, and therefore have an uncontrollable prejudice against smokers (you make my air smell bad and increase my health care costs), but I can’t deny that this video game inspired cigarette is a little bit…
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Six Great Source Filmmaker Parodies
It’s only been around for about a month, but so far Valve’s Source Filmmaker is proving to be a powerful video editing tool for those with the creativity, talent, or ambition. When the software was…