And speaking of scary…
…the Onion plays with all our minds: ‘Warcraft’ Sequel Lets Gamers Play A Character Playing ‘Warcraft’ Heh. ..bruce w..
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They prepare us for that which is to come: Are Violent Video Games Adequately Preparing Children For The Apocalypse? Heh. ..bruce w..
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Saturday matinee
We all need a bit of entertainment. MORNING LINKS (Gotta post!) ITEM: Hey, “Earth Hour” is tonight, another blip of self-congratulatory, feel-good environmental idiocy and irrelevance. Here’s how I...
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Monday yawns
Time to get up and moving.... MORNING LINKS — get ‘em while they’re fresh ITEM: “Should war be a game?“ is the fatuous subhead of the day, from an article talking about a new videogame recreating the...
View ArticleAh, if Dante were only alive today
I must confess affection for a video game ad that starts by quoting the opening lines of “The Inferno” by Dante — and then segues into into battle sequences that look like a cross between “God of War”...
View ArticleThis could almost be a “SunDog” music video
SunDog was the Apple II computer game (later ported to the Atari ST) that Wayne Holder and I (with others) did at FTL Games some 25+ years ago. This video looks as though it came right out of the...
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Endless Space from Amplitude Studios — a review
I have been playing computer games off and on since the mid-70s (“Star Trek” on the DECSystem-10 at BYU) and did game design and development myself in the 80s (Sundog: Frozen Legacy) while also...
View ArticleTomb Raider (2013): A brief (and preliminary) review, with spoilers
Of the previous “Tomb Raider” games, I only ever played the very first one, and even that not very much — it was my daughter Crystal who was the “Tomb Raider” aficionado (both games and movies). My...
View Article“Dishonored DLC: The Knife of Dunwall”— a brief review w/spoilers
“Dishonored” (2012) is one of my favorite games in quite some time. I haven’t put as many hours into it as I have into, say, “Endless Space” or “XCOM: Enemy Unknown”, but it has a moral resonance,...
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Lookout, Hollywood — GTA V makes $800 million in 24 hours
Over the past decade, I have found it interesting that Hollywood continues to be portrayed as a glamorous, serious business, while the video game industry is seen as a haven for nerds at best, and a...
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