Exactly how many bullets can kill a person? How many apples can one man carry? In real life, the answers vary. In a video game, real life must be explained in numbers. That includes religion: how it spreads, who believes. More »
In the beginning, I played video games. And, often, I played the role of God. More »
The Rock Band Network has gone into beta, with a comprehensive guide to offensive content that features a list of “very naughty words”, such as “Anusdrill”, “Paedophile” and “God”. We’ve reproduced the list here, so be warned – this post is extremely NSFW. More »
If four-hour gaming sessions of killing, stealing, coveting thy neighbour’s ox or donkey, and breaking every other Commandment leaves you feeling distant from the Lord, a Bible application is coming to Xbox Live’s Indie Games channel. More »
Famed Playstation developer David Jaffe may seem like an odd choice for guest developer for our in-game podcast about the Xbox 360′s Gears of War 2.
Wikipedia and the Encyclopedia Britannica have been locked in a kind of cage match battle for relevancy ever since legions of high schoolers found the former was an excellent tool for half-assing term papers graduating on time research. One thing, however, that hasn’t changed is the length of an article still means something in the Britannica. On Wikipedia, not so much.
Wikipedia is still very much the domain for longwinded parsings of the esoteric, if not completely hallucinated bullshit, a lot of it depending on how motivated that subject’s fanboy corps is. Who’s gonna show up more, Q-Bert’s fans, or President James Buchanan?
Games Radar has put together a list showing the truly distorted priorities of Wikipedia editors and writers, if length is a useful metric. And I think it is. Because according to their analysis, Knuckles from fucking Sonic the Hedgehog gets 7,832 words, and God — yes, that Guy — rates 3,726. There are 14 other hilarious comparisons (Call of Duty vs. World War II; Electronic Gaming Monthly vs Time, etc.) So get out there and start padding entries that really matter: Niko Bellic’s (385 words).
The WTF World of Wikipedia [Games Radar]
