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(Resonance Machine) Love and Pain

JRGBruno wrote 1 week ago: Anger is the righteous emotion, and anything worth a shit is worth getting angry about. The games wh … more →

Tags: Video Games, game culture, game lolz, spousal abuse is no laughing matter

You Can't Go Back To WoW 2 comments

shoinan wrote 1 month ago: This is a piece I wrote for MMO Life in June 2009, the link to which appears to be permanently broke … more →

Tags: Video Games, World of Warcraft

The Passage Of Time In Azeroth

shoinan wrote 1 month ago: This is a piece I wrote for MMO Life in June 2009, the link to which appears to be permanently broke … more →

Tags: Video Games, World of Warcraft

How Too Human's Single-Player Tried To Hide What Its Co-op'd Already Exposed7 comments

shoinan wrote 3 months ago: Too Human reminded me of Assassin’s Creed. While the latter’s extensive preview treatment proved mor … more →

Tags: Narrative Discussion, Video Games, too human

Rainbow-Tinted Spectacles

shoinan wrote 3 months ago: Nine other writers and I were kindly invited by Hi-Score’s Daniel Lipscombe to write a few wor … more →

Tags: Pimpage, Rainbow Islands, Video Games

Mithra And The Indie Bar2 comments

shoinan wrote 3 months ago: Last week I took full advantage of Steam’s indie collection sale, snapping up ten highly rated games … more →

Tags: Industry Discussion, Video Games, Mithra

Aesthetics Matter: Train2 comments

Dan wrote 3 months ago: I heard about Train a few months ago and was just fascinated. Vague spoilers follow, and I really en … more →

Tags: Game design

Plants vs. Zombies: Pimp Edition

Dan wrote 4 months ago: I may have been out on holiday, but in the meantime, Plants vs. Zombies has come out. It was made by … more →

"Easy to Use and Incredibly Difficult: On the Mythical Border between Interface and Gameplay"

JRGBruno wrote 4 months ago: An interesting article by Jesper Juul on the complex relatioship between ease of use and challenge i … more →

Tags: Game design, game studies, Video Games

Don't Domesticate Suda! A Preemptive Polemic

JRGBruno wrote 5 months ago: Suda 51, sitting on his protagonist's favorite chair. I’m not sure what to think of No More Hero … more →

Tags: Video Games, E3 2009

BG 15 - GTA IV : Exploring the Mundane

Jonathan McCalmont wrote 6 months ago: Futurismic have my fifteenth Blasphemous Geometries column. It is not only the first of the columns … more →

Tags: Column, Video Games, futurismic, gta iv, Shenmue

Playing the Sex card.4 comments

Justin Keverne wrote 6 months ago: For a mature title The Witcher displays an all too believably juvenile attitude towards sexual relat … more →

Tags: Narrative Design, Game design, sexism, racism, the witcher, Andrzej Sapkowski

The Art of Rules, Ctd.

JRGBruno wrote 6 months ago: From Game Culture: Games are supposed to be safe places, where we experiment with strategy and compe … more →

Tags: game culture, Game design, Video Games

Mechanical Definitions.6 comments

Justin Keverne wrote 6 months ago: At a low enough level all game mechanics are the same, we press a button, move a stick, and somethin … more →

Tags: Narrative Design, Halo: Combat Evolved, Game design

I have a voice...1 comment

Justin Keverne wrote 6 months ago: A few days ago I was asked to guest on a couple of podcasts, I’ll admit to a fair degree of ex … more →

Tags: Game design, Personal Work, System Shock 2, Podcast

The Art of Rules

JRGBruno wrote 6 months ago: Rules are to game design what editing is to film: a craft that is at once unique to its medium and f … more →

Tags: Video Games, Game design

MadWorld's Contrasts7 comments

shoinan wrote 6 months ago: After MadWorld received glowing recommendations from Area 5’s Co-Op show and Big Red Potion’s own Jo … more →

Tags: Video Games, madworld

Stephen Totilo: What Made Me a Game Journalist

JRGBruno wrote 6 months ago: As my minutes at MTV come to an end, I’d like to share some experiences about my time covering games … more →

Tags: game journalism, Video Games

The Mechanics of Street Fighter IV

JRGBruno wrote 7 months ago: Street Fighter IV was received with widespread critical acclaim and relatively strong sales. Whether … more →

Tags: Video Games, Game design


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