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Saturday, July 11, 2009
News

People Played Real Plane Crash Web Game 4.6 Million Times

5:54AM Stephen Totilo | Hero On The Hudson, a gameplay-light web game about Captain “Sully” Sullenberger’s successful landing of an Airbus A320 on the Hudson River, is just one popular game based on that stuff most commercial video games don’t deal with: current events. More »
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Culture

A View of the Inauguration From a Devastated Washington, D.C.

2:00AM Brian Crecente | Today Barack Obama will be sworn in as the 44th president of the United States. It certainly didn’t escape Stephen Totilo’s notice who’s created quite an ode to the event. More »
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Sunday, November 2, 2008

On Relevant Settings in Games

7:30AM Maggie Greene | L.B. Jeffries has a nice piece up arguing for more relevant and provocative settings in games in order to raise awareness and perhaps do something a little greater for disastrous (real world) situations. He points out that violence isn’t incompatible with this, thus many classic genres would probably be quite at home dealing with nasty current day situations (as he points out, film has already done this — though not always through violent means — though Jeffries uses Rambo 4 as a cinematic touchstone). Of course, this comes with some problems: More »
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