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Bioshock Infinite is a Metacommentary on the Nature of Video Game Storytelling
KEVIN JAMES WONG

I’m going to spoil a lot of Bioshock Infinite for all of you, so beware this blog post if you’re planning on playing this game.  Bioshock Infinite is a game about a lot of things. Bioshock Infinite Religious zealotry, American Exceptionalism, theories of space-time and interdimensionality, patriotic jingoism, the inevitability of economic disparity, Occupy Wall Street, postcolonial theory, and problems faced by political radicalism. Its a beautifully sophisticated game on many thematic levels,  and while not every strand is followed to a conclusion, it piques interest, causes uncanny discomfort, and provokes conversation and interpretation within its colorful fan community. However, my view on the meaning of Bioshock Infinite, which has conflicted with the interpretations of the many friends that I have discussed the game with, involves a subtle level of self-reflexivity that I saw pervading the game’s entirety. Bioshock Infinite is about the nature of narrative in ga

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Nerd Wars! Who’s Got the Best Mustache in Gaming?
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There’s no better way to tell the world you’re a total man than to grow a gnarly mustache. Think about it. Picture that distant uncle you have, the one who wears flannel and sits on his porch yelling at any passerby. You know what he has? A stache and he who has the stache, holds all the power. There have been some amazing mustaches in gaming history and for this week’s round of Nerd Wars! we want to determine who’s got the best stache of them all. Careful, things might get a little hairy. [polldaddy poll=7093056]

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Battling Literal Errors in Left 4 Dead
Useless Progress

Recently, my guy and I were playing a round of Left 4 Dead. Zombie shooting is fun. However, when we actually loaded the game up, it was full of errors. I’m not talking a random graphical glitch here and there, I’m talking LITERAL errors. Giant ones. And the red ones were flashing. What was particularly terrifying, though, was when the errors started CHARGING AT US. They didn’t seem able to harm us, though. We were able to shoot them, and blood came out, but no errors died in the making of this blog post. And lastly, a bonus picture of an octopus sign.

Tech jokes for a laugh …
Bear Tales

Just a few tech jokes to share. Please enjoy … He doesn’t look that much more ridiculous than the people that actually use bluetooth. Hope you had a laugh. . .

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And over 15 years later…PokeMMO!
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Image courtesy of Nintendo. No copyright infringement intended. Just using it to spice up my post! How excited were you when you first got this game back in Middle School (or for some of you, much later. That’s okay.)? While I was far behind the curve and finally got this game once Gold/Silver were coming out, I was still just as damn excited. As the years went by, I played all of the games up to Black/White, and soon X/Y. I can’t afford a 3DS for X/Y… So I grew up and I moved on to other types of games, and eventually somehow recieved the title of “Queen of MMOs” from a group of my friends. I seemed to know everything about the major MMOs on the market, and was the go-to girl for questions on what to do and how to do it. So, imagine my disappointment when I found out about PokeMMO through a a friend! I had been waiting for this for years! YEARS! I was skeptical at first. I made an account, I downloaded the client and immediately scanned it with my virus s

Cute Things: Deponia
Healing the masses

I have had Deponia from Daedalic Entertainment in my steam library for some time now, as is the case with many many other games. It released last near the end of last year and I had to get it in the subsequent Christmas steam sales because the art style of it looked really quite wonderful. The Penny Arcade report even had an interview with some of the developers about their remarkable hand drawn 2d style because it really is something quite unique. Everyone seems to be going further and further towards the computer generated aspect of backgrounds and characters, and yet, here is one company re-imagining the styles of old and invoking a really strong sense of nostalgia. And I loved all those old hand drawn games and movies, it is a style of creation that really exudes a lot of personality pity though that the game really doesn’t deserve to be compared to those classics. Playing Deponia, the major thing I keep thinking is if nostalgia has some how taken over in my recollection of p

Death by Lightsabers
Spinning Crane Kick

Now before you judge me after my last post, hear me out. I loved Star Wars: The Old Republic, mainly because to me, it had the story of a single player game, entrenched in gameplay that I love, that being near MMOs, notably WoW. Lately, things have been very stale in WoW. Stagnant. People have left. The few of us floating around are bouncing ideas out about what to do now, but nothing seems to stick. So I spent one long night downloading SWTOR, and thought I’d give Bioware a second chance. And at first, it was going well. Afraid that I’d have to lose some of my characters, most which I don’t really remember, I made a new account. I leveled an Imperial Agent to level 11 and ran the opening Flashpoint, Black Talon. And I really enjoyed it. The storyline is probably one of the more interesting ones. Kaliyo is a lively, interesting companion. And being a Sniper, so far, was a lot of fun. But all this fun couldn’t keep me from noticing all the lovely little upgrade i

Chapter 9
Virtual Prophet

“You’ve been on Tygon before, right?” Cooper looked up from inspecting the new tattoo on his right bicep and let his sleeve fall back into place. “Yes,” he replied. He leaned back and put his feet up on Trew’s desk. Trew was still looking for answers, and the office where Sylvia resided was the next logical place to look. “Why did it cost Brandon his life this time?” Cooper shook his head. “The answer to that question is pointless for you to know at the moment.” Trew had heard this answer before, he kept asking new ones. “Do you know why video feeds have been lost?” “No, but I would guess that it was planned.” “By whom?” Cooper smiled and ran his hands through his hair. “There’s only one person on Tygon who could have set something like this up.” “Brandon?” Trew asked. “That’s where I’d put my money. You’ve seen what he was like as a kid. I mean, he still is a kid…you know what I’m getting at. The best players are ten, maybe twelve steps in front of the rest. With Brandon it was always

Opinion: Nintendo’s Ad Revenue
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It’s no secret I’m a big Nintendo fan, but recently they’ve caused a bit of controversy. YouTube is littered with let’s plays, and of course, there are thousands of Nintendo themed ones to pick and choose from. Back in February, Nintendo became a YouTube partner and put into place some regulations with their copyrights policy. We’ve seen other companies, such as SEGA, force Let’s Players to completely remove the content of their games from YouTube. As you can imagine, this didn’t last long and they have since apologized for their behavior. Well, what Nintendo decided to do is not nearly as bad if you ask me, they are claiming ad revenue and placing Nintendo ads before Let’s Play videos with Nintendo games. Now, let’s break this down a bit. Obviously the Let’s Players are very upset about this. Many of them claim that because they won’t get ad revenue they won’t do Nintendo Let’s Plays anymore. Nintendo, on th

Introduction?/ part 2?
emptydreamsforagamergirl

You could guess from the name that I am an “expert” on “empty dreams”, because my mind is a dump for them. I learned that if i let go of my dreams, they go to a girl just like me. A girl with the same dreams and hopefully a girl with a driving force called motivation, so that her dreams can turn into reality. 

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