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Charlie Brooker's Gameswipe2 comments

gregroake wrote 1 month ago: As you may or may not know, bbc4  A highly underrated channel in my opinion. Has currently been prod … more →

Tags: Video Games, charlie brooker, Screenwipe, gameswipe, Newswipe, BBC4

The Golden Joystick Awards 2009

gregroake wrote 1 month ago: As you know or may not know, the 27th annual Golden Joystick awards has just finished, & the vid … more →

Tags: Articles for other websites, News, Video Games, 2009, Awards, golden joystick, London

Have we sinned?

gregroake wrote 1 month ago: Sigh Videogames, There progress is chartable, most of us remember where we were when those iconic ti … more →

Tags: Articles for other websites, MWF2, Retro, SNES, NES, Atari, call+of+duty, Videogame Culture

Half-life A look back

gregroake wrote 1 month ago: Hear that? Yes, level one complete! Some more text-based briefing and transitional loading screens a … more →

Tags: Video Games, FPS, half, Life, HL, HL2, looking back

This Game Contains Advertising1 comment

richardwillis wrote 2 months ago: In the 1950s and 1960s it was all so easy. Mad Men placed cigarette adverts on TV and nationwide the … more →

Tags: Game design, Microsoft, Sony, Xbox Live, Activision, Burnout: Paradise, Game Development, in-game advertising, next-gen

Kurdt Lives

richardwillis wrote 3 months ago: “I wish I was like you … easily amused” Courtney Love has always been a figure that has attracted de … more →

Tags: Game design, Microsoft, Sony, Video Games, Xbox Live, Activision, Bon Jovi, Courtney Love, guitar hero

The Beatles Killed The Dreamcast1 comment

richardwillis wrote 3 months ago: The 9th of September 2009 marked the 10th anniversary of the North American launch of the Dreamcast. … more →

Tags: hardcore gamers, Life Changing Moments, Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony, Video Games, Xbox Live, dreamcast, guitar hero

The Loneliness Of A Long Distance Speedrunner1 comment

richardwillis wrote 5 months ago: I am still not sure that I entirely understand the appeal of ’sandbox’ games. Sure, I un … more →

Tags: Game design, game worlds, hardcore gamers, Video Games, APB, David Jones, emergent gameplay, emergent gaming, Game Development

Playing Dead: Community And Video Games1 comment

richardwillis wrote 6 months ago: Community is a word that is used continually when referring to the Internet. Almost as though it had … more →

Tags: hardcore gamers, Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony, Wii, Xbox Live, Burnout: Paradise, guitar hero, Halo 3

What Project Natal actually means ...

richardwillis wrote 6 months ago: Ever since the emergence of the Wii, there has been a continual movement away from, and criticism of … more →

Tags: Burnout: Paradise, Game design, game worlds, Life Changing Moments, Microsoft, Sony, Wii, Burnout, E3

All your platform are belong to us

richardwillis wrote 6 months ago: After five months of being away from the flat we finally moved back in. As ever the first thing I di … more →

Tags: Game design, Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony, Wii, Xbox Live, crackdown, gta, heavy rain

Why lists are dead [but not buried]

richardwillis wrote 7 months ago:   At the end of 2007 I wrote a list of games that I had enjoyed throughout the year. Like everyone e … more →

Tags: Burnout: Paradise, Game design, Little Big Planet, Game of the Year, GOTY, Nintendo, PS3, Video Game Criticism, Wii

The Video Game Culture Problem1 comment

Pietro Savo wrote 7 months ago: The video game culture problem, life does not have a reset or do over button. What has emerged from … more →

Tags: American writer, NEW HAMPSHIRE "Live Free or Die.", Culture, Pietro Savo, video game, problem, Children, Gaming World, old adage

why [video game] journalism sucks in '081 comment

richardwillis wrote 1 year ago: Journalism, as it was once said to me, is ‘research without the application of theory’. … more →

Tags: Giant Bomb, Little Big Planet, Video Games Reviews, Activision, Fallout 3, metacritic, Playstation 3, video game journalism, Video Games

Reformat the Planet

Aris wrote 1 year ago: REFORMAT THE PLANET is a feature length documentary which delves into the movement known as chip tun … more →

Tags: Video Games, Movies, Music, chiptunes

My Famicase Exhibition 2008

Aris wrote 1 year ago: If you’re following any of the major video game blogs, then you’ve probably read about M … more →

Tags: Video Games, NES, My Famicase

The Best Videogames Of 2007

richardwillis wrote 1 year ago: I have been meaning to write this blog for weeks, but other things have kept getting in the way. I d … more →

Tags: Wii, Nintendo, hardcore gamers, Life Changing Moments, Portal, Video Games, xbox 360, PC

World War II Game with Nazi Mechs?

Alex Taldren wrote 2 years ago: Check out this video over at E-motional Design. It features mechanized robots fighting each other du … more →

Tags: Video Games, Video Game Commercial, Video Games and Violence, Violent Games, Video Game Violence, War Front: Turning Point, World War II RTS, WWII Games

Video Game Libraries!?2 comments

Alex Taldren wrote 2 years ago: Yes, that’s right, libraries that allow people to check out video games! In my opinion, this i … more →

Tags: Video Game Library, Literary Theory, English


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