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Shigeru Miyamoto's 'Bad' Game
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Candy Box: A Game That’s Simple, Sweet, And Strangely Compelling
When I got the link from a friend on Twitter, I thought Candy Box was some kind of a test or a joke. Candies started accumulating, and the only button I could click was “eat all the candies.” Gulp. Glump. OK. If eating sweets was a management sim, this would be the game.
If BioShock’s Rapture Was An Extreme Tourism Destination…
French artist Laure-Marie Torre has come up with just about the best BioShock-related idea I’ve ever seen. She’s imagined that Rapture still exists, but that alongside the crazies, there are still regular folks as well. Instead of fighting over the place and killing everybody, she figured, wouldn’t they instead just want to make some money?
French Court Says Prisoner Can’t Have A PS3 But Could Use Xbox 360
The latest Xbox 360 exclusive? French prisons. An inmate recently lost his appeal to have his PlayStation 3 and the privilege of playing it restored to him, and it seems the PS3′s on-board WiFi connection is the problem. Good ol’ Xbox 360, remember, didn’t have that feature on the Elite or the Arcade models.
Islamic Extremists Made This Video Game
You sometimes hear Western video games set in real-world geopolitical hotspots — like entries in the Call of Duty, Battlefield and Medal of Honor series — get decried as jingoistic, flag-waving propaganda. While the claim can be made that political mindsets and cultural biases seep into those video games, they’re not explicitly made to froth up ideological allegiances.
Draw Me Like One Of Your French Video Game Artists Does
French artist Bastien Vives, whose cosmopolitan video game art does little to dispel French stereotypes, returns this week with a batch of terrific fan art.
The Silly Outrage Over A Soldier Wearing A ‘Call Of Duty’ Mask
The image above is of a French soldier currently on active duty in Mali. He’s wearing a mask that looks like the one a character from Call of Duty wears. This is, somehow, cause for enough indignation that the French military and government have opened an investigation into what they call “unacceptable” behaviour.
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