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Boobs are Not the Enemy: Videogames and the Male Gaze 13 May 2013 | 12:08 pm
Suppose I'm making a film about street racers. The film's characters have a great appreciation of cars, so when they first see the fancy new car that just might enable the hero to win the race, there'...
Uninformed Economic Voters 11 Mar 2013 | 01:15 am
Recently, your friend and mine Cliff Bleszinski wrote an essay defending microtransactions in general and EA in specific. There are a lot of things to be said about this essay - some of which are said...
Tropes and Trolls: When the Game Is Not What You Think It Is 3 Dec 2012 | 01:00 pm
In games where the player character has a specific goal - save the Princess, escape the testing facility, defeat a nemesis - the player is presumed to share this goal. But even if the narrative does a...
The GameStop/OnLive Debacle: How I Like To Think It Happened 31 Aug 2011 | 03:19 pm
GameStop Underling: Huh. That's interesting. GameStop Boss: What is? Underling: These Deus Ex: Human Revolution games Square Enix shipped us include a voucher for a free OnLive copy of the game. I d...
Blizzard and the Two-Level Deception 9 Aug 2011 | 06:38 pm
Recently we discussed Blizzard's announcement that they are saddling Diablo III with terrible DRM, which they say isn't DRM, but which everyone knows is DRM. I mentioned that there was much to be said...
Blizzard and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad DRM 8 Aug 2011 | 07:00 pm
You may have heard that there's been a bit of a kerfuffle recently in response to some news about Diablo III. I'll walk you through it - but first, we need to talk about Ubisoft. On July 28, Ubisoft ...
Doing My Dailies, Part Two: Doctor Professor Replies 8 Apr 2011 | 09:34 am
Part One is here. Anonymous said... Post an update....what do you think of the replies you've got here? March 15, 2011 2:32 PM Okay. You're on. Anonymous said... I think moderation is key in many ...
Doing My Dailies: Why I Quit WoW And Started Working Out 31 Dec 2010 | 01:40 pm
I quit World of Warcraft in June of 2009. I quit hard. I donated my assets to the guild bank and deleted all of my characters. I didn't want to leave the door open to come back. I wanted to burn it do...
Uncharted, One Chance, and Cheating 13 Dec 2010 | 09:31 pm
I don't have much more to say about Uncharted 2, as it turns out, because I didn't get through much more of it before giving up and sending it back to GameFly. I'm therefore not qualified to review it...
The One Commandment for Game Sequels 8 Nov 2010 | 09:31 pm
I've been thinking a lot lately about franchises. Having recently played Mass Effect 2, and then Assassin's Creed II, and now Uncharted 2, I have a lot of questions about what sequels are and what...
