Sunday, June 21, 2009
Father Knows Best: Best And Worst Fathers In Video Games
4:08PM AJ Glasser | Fathers are easy to find in video games. When they’re not antagonising their offspring or killed off in the first level, they often serve as our main characters’ major motivation. More » 
Modder Builds USB Adapter For SNES Carts
9:00AM Owen Good | The SNES is old enough that any hankering to play Super Mario World can be satisfied entirely by emulator. Still, here’s a USB hack that lets you plug old carts to a PC. More »
Sunday Supplement: “It’s the only thing that’s ever hugged her”
8:00AM 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.
Experience Points: Fires in Africa: Politics in Far Cry 2
Part One of an excellent essay. Part Two can be found here.
OffWorld: Milo and Kate, or Artificial People Are The New Games
Jim Rossignol suggests that the future of games is “artificial life”.
Robin Burkinshaw: Alice And Kev
Amazing visual diary of the lives of a homeless father and daughter in The Sims 3.
Click Nothing: Ethical Decision Making
Ubisoft Montreal’s Clint Hocking stimulates a fascinating debate around how ethical dilemmas in games differ from those in other media.
Hit Self-Destruct: Prometheus Unlocked
Anyone who writes – or wants to write – about games should read this and feel inspired. More »
Silent Hill Models The New Fall Collection
8:00AM Owen Good | Apparently Pyramid Head got tired of the 9 to 5 butcher gig, got a personal trainer and an agent, and now has made it big as an emaciated eurotrash model for a Swedish label. More »Breaking Down Assassin’s Creed 2
Hero Cop Popped In Video Game Ripoff
6:00AM Owen Good | A Lawrence, Kan. police officer who earned a medal for rescuing people from burning apartments now faces a 14-count federal indictment in an alleged buy-and-return video game fraud. More »
Bioware Tweets Reveal Figurine, Print Sale
4:30AM Owen Good | Twitterers on Bioware’s Mass Effect and Dragon Age accounts had been dribbling out image fragments that, pieced together on Friday, tip off the return of the Commander Shepard figurine, plus another item. More »
Cardboard Tube Samurai Coming To Tekken 6?
4:00AM Owen Good | How could this be anyone else ?Tekkenbob, the official Twitter account for Tekken 6, uploaded this yesterday afternoon, and it looks like Gabe and Tycho are designing a costume for the game. More »
