Sunday, May 3, 2009
Sunday Supplement: “Videogames should be more violent, not less”
2:00PM David Wildgoose | Welcome to the Sunday Supplement, a collection of five smart pieces of video game writing from the last week or so. Enjoy!
GameSetWatch: Forget ‘Games As Art’ — Try A New Approach
Christian Nutt tackles the “games as art” debate and settles on some quite refreshing conclusions.
PopMatters: Like Movies – with Buttons
And on a similar tip, LB Jeffries tackles the “games as movies” debate, dispelling many commonly held notions.
Crispy Gamer: Character: The Next Great Gaming Frontier?
Chris Buecheler at the increasingly excellent Crispy Gamer wonders why characterisation trails well behind the technology curve.
Offworld: Ragdoll Metaphysics: JG Ballard, Boredom, And The Violent Promise Of Videogames
Sunday Supplement favourite Jim Rossignol finds much that is relevant to games in the writing of the late JG Ballard.
The House Next Door: The Alligators Have Good Graphics: Beginning Game Criticism, Vol. 1
Film critic Logan Crowell delivers an exceptionally insightful outsider’s perspective on how game criticism needs to find its own path.
For Some Reason, I Want To Jump On This Cake
9:00AM Owen Good | You know? Like both feet together, straight down, off a brick ledge from a height about three times my own. I bet it’s super smooshy, just like a Goomba should be. More » 
A Tribute To Corewar
8:00AM Owen Good | There is no way in hell I could ever “play” it – my programming days ended with BASIC. But Corewar always intrigued me, because it was the closest thing to real-life Tron I could imagine. More »
Apple Getting More Serious About Mobile Gaming?
7:00AM Owen Good | Forbes looks at some of Apple’s latest maneuverings and concludes the company is muscling up on its mobile gaming business. More »
Zeno Clash Dev Tries Reasoning With Torrenters
6:00AM Owen Good | Like stages of grief, game-makers’ response to file sharing goes in stages. ACE Team, the Zeno Clash developer, skipped rage and grief and moved on to bargaining – directly with would-be copiers. More »Left 4 Dead Means Close-Knit Zombies
5:00AM Owen Good | What is it with gamer girls sewing gifts for their guys? Sounds like arts-and-crafts meets Stockholm syndrome. Reader Alex K’s sis-in-law crocheted these adorable Left 4 Dead guys as a token of her (alienated) affection. More » 
Two More Boxers On Punch-Out!! Card
4:30AM Owen Good | Go Nintendo’s a little ahead of the curve with a small pic, of unspecified origin, confirming two original Punch-Out!! pugilists’ presence in the forthcoming Wii-make. More »Warcraft Is So Over This Swine Flu
4:00AM Owen Good | IRL Swine Flu sounds like just a nighttime-sniffling-sneezing inconvenience when you read that it’s been going around Azeroth since the Lich King beta, and pops you for 120 natural damage every two seconds. More » 
High Voltage: Wii Exclusives Can Handle… Tens Of On-Screen Enemies
3:30AM Owen Good | High Voltage, the studio behind the (latest) bacon-saver for Wii core gamers, The Conduit, says his house will show off two more Wii exclusives at E3, capable of five dozen onscreen foes, minimum. More »
