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In Real Life

Stealth Gameplay Isn’t Enough: Give Me The Thrill Of The Hunt

I finally finished Crytek’s Crysis 2 last week and surprised myself by immediately firing up a new game and starting it over from the beginning. Sure, Crysis 2 is a slick, well-made first-person shooter, but it’s fairly unremarkable on the surface. So why, when I had so many other games I could (or should) be playing, was I nano-suiting up yet another time?

August 12, 2011
In Real Life

Spoiler Alert: People Like Spoilers

We live in an era of extreme spoiler-phobia. Be it television, movies, novels, or video games, the speedy connectivity of social media has conditioned us to live in fear of ruining one another’s fun. We add spoiler warnings to even the most mundane details, even when the subject of the discussion is years old.

August 11, 2011
Nintendo

Know Your Zelda Animals, Monsters, Beasts, Bird People And Weird Chicken Things

Artist Jude Buffum has come up with this impressive (and informative!) piece called Magna Arbor Vitae Deku. It’s essentially a biology chart of the Zelda universe.

In Real Life

Man Has Jaw Broken, PSP Stolen During London Riots

One of the sadder stories to come out of this week’s London riots is that of Malaysian student Ashraf Haziq, who bleeding profusely from a broken jaw is helped to his feet by passers-by…before summarily having his PSP stolen right out of his backpack.

August 10, 2011
Xbox

You Can Thank This Man For The Look Of Gears Of War

Epic Games has a common visual style running through all its games. Gears of War looks like Unreal Tournament which looks like Bulletstorm. If you’ve ever wondered why that is, well, wonder no more.

August 7, 2011
In Real Life

The President Ends A Four-Year Term

In 2007, the NFL staged a regular-season game in London for the first time ever. The night before, the American ambassador invited several VIPs to the U.S. embassy there. Even diplomatic cocktail parties do not proceed without some formality.

August 6, 2011
PC

A Gripping, Lusty Excerpt From My Witcher 2 Novel

You may be aware that CD Projekt’s The Witcher games are based on a series of fantasy novels by the Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski. What you may not know is that I liked the story of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings so much that I have been working on my own novelization of it, tentatively titled The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings: The Game: The Novel.

August 3, 2011
Nintendo

This Is The Coolest Stuff Nintendo Has Ever Made

You can say a lot of nice things about Nintendo games. Nintendo hardware, too. Wildly successful, iconic and timeless are just three of them. But how often can you say something Nintendo made was genuinely cool?

July 24, 2011
News

Guildmates Of Oslo Shooting Suspect Find Solace In World Of Warcraft Forums

The 32-year-old man suspected of detonating a bomb in Norway’s capital and going on a shooting spree in police garb, killing at least 87, was many things: He was a self-identified conservative Christian, farmer, body builder, hunter, freemason and gamer.

July 14, 2011
In Real Life

Where Does Batman Get All This Wonderful Concept Art?

There may be over seventy years worth of Gotham City imagery to draw from, but that doesn’t mean the developers of Batman: Arkham City were allowed to get lazy.

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