Latest Columns
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Posted on May 3rd, 2012
Games do what art has always done: manipulate technology to tell a story. There isn’t much else to it. So why is story so often left out of the equation, or so brazenly added in...
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Posted on May 1st, 2012
Back in March Obsidian laid off a good chunk of their employees as they tried to stay afloat. While a tanking video game company is no surprise in this economy, developer Chris Avellone’s twitter account...
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Posted on April 27th, 2012
Kingdom of Loathing is a relic of the internet. Perhaps it’s not one of the better known staples like Homestar Runner or porn, but it’s been around since 2003 and cultivated quite a community with...
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Posted on April 26th, 2012
Let’s pretend for a moment that I’m a digital pirate. And let’s pretend I torrented Modern Warfare 3, making me both a gamer and a pirate. As a pirate, I’m convinced that Activision never deserved,...
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Posted on April 25th, 2012
After Mass Effect 3′s terrible, out-of-place, off-putting finale, the gaming community had a collective panic attack. This was shortly followed by a collective tantrum. Rather than just sticking with merely criticizing Bioware for conjuring up...
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Posted on April 20th, 2012
I rarely enjoy a MMO. Usually, I find them to be boring, monotonous, and far too expensive.
That’s why I really enjoyed Spiral Knights. It’s a fun, engaging, free-to-play MMO; the complete opposite of my perception...
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Posted on April 16th, 2012
Sly Cooper. inFAMOUS. Two – on the surface – very different series. One features a stealthy, thieving, anthropomorphic raccoon, while the other stars a brooding hero (or anti-hero, if you so choose) with lightning fingers....
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Posted on April 1st, 2012
Earlier this week, Ubisoft announced that Assassin’s Creed III will be released in three special editions. Normally, when a game is released in multiple versions, the differences between the iterations rarely strays past collector’s items...
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Posted on March 29th, 2012
Spoilers abound: you probably shouldn’t read this if you haven’t finished Journey.
There were a lot of things I couldn’t say in my Journey review in an effort to keep out the spoilers. The problem...
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Posted on March 25th, 2012
Reviews are by their nature subjective. I have no idea if your time spent with Journey will be as meaningful as it was for me. Personally, I cried at the end. Happy tears? Sad tears?...
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