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Sunday Supplement: “a game about nothing, signifying nothing”

9:00AM David Wildgoose | Welcome to your Sunday reservoir of interesting writing about video games. Grab your reading jacket, a cup of coffee and get ready to exercise the brain. EDGE: Brütal Legend: A Love Story Chris Dahlen examines Double Fine’s deft characterisation of Ophelia as the emotional fulcrum of Brütal Legend. Fidgit: Tim Schafer on the finer points of nudity, heavy metal, and Brütal Legend Tom Chick chats in-depth with Tim Schafer. ‘Nuff said. Flash of Steel: Decade Feature: 2000 – Sacrifice Troy Goodfellow revisits the strange and uncomfortable strategy of Shiny’s excellent Sacrifice. GameCritics: Sans ethics and damn fun? Sega’s Madworld and House of the Dead Overkill Matthew Kaplan debates whether the “stupefying satisfaction” of a dumb action game can be as valuable as one that is worthy and enlightens. Vorpal Bunny Ranch: Raydians: Persons of Color Denis Farr reveals a parable of race relations at the heart of bright and breezy de Blob.

Finally, Brandish 2

5:30PM Luke Plunkett |

Nintendo Won’t Commit To A 2010 Zelda

4:30PM Luke Plunkett | During an interview on GameTrailers TV yesterday, Nintendo of America’s Reggie Fils-Aime was quizzed on whether we’d see Zelda on the Wii next year. His response? Hedge-betting. More »

Rock Band 3 Will Teach You How To Play Proper Music

3:40PM Luke Plunkett | In an interview with the Chicago Tribune, Dhani Harrison — son of former Beatle George Harrison — has revealed that he’s not only working on Rock Band 3, but that it’s going to take the series in a new direction. More »

Tales Of Vesperia Is Wii Bound?!

3:20PM Brian Ashcraft | Popular Japanese voice actor Rikiya Koyama appears to have leaked the news that Namco Bandai role-playing game Tales of Vesperia is Wii-bound. Ooops! More »

What It’s Like To Live Where Games Are Criminalised

3:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Twenty-six-year-old gamer Guido Núñez-Mujica lives in Venezula, where the government has passed a new law that in effect criminalises video games. More »

Trials Dev Pirated Its Own Game To Drive Interest

2:40PM Owen Good | RedLynx, the developer of the well received downloadable title Trials, said that it seeded pirate torrent sites with neutered copies of the game in order to stoke interest in the title. More »

Germany’s Censored L4D2 Runs Faster

2:00PM Owen Good | Australia isn’t the only nation receiving a power-cleaned version of Left 4 Dead 2. Germany, no doubt because of the killerspiele hysteria, has a similarly sanitised demo. But guess what, it also runs 40 per cent faster. More »

Rumour: Kane & Lynch 2 Has A Very NSFW Level

1:40PM Michael McWhertor | Eidos sequel to the 2007’s Kane & Lynch: Dead Men, likely titled Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days and likely teased in this fascinating but brief video, may be giving your eyeballs more Kane and Lynch than you bargained for. More »