News

New Rainbow 6 Might Be The Most Innovative Shooter In Years

While Ubisoft’s still-secret, yet-to-be named Rainbow 6 game skipped an E3 appearance this year, it is still very much in the works we’re told.


February 26, 2011
PlayStation

Good? Bad? He’s The Guy With Electricity-Based Superpowers

Nothing changes a man like a pair of female embodiments of order and chaos. Check out the changes Cole undergoes in inFamous 2 as his morality gets twisted about, along with a peek at his brand-new ice-based powers.


February 19, 2011
In Real Life

Are Video Games Turning Liberals Into Virtual Conservatives?

Monica Potts a feminist graduate of an all-girls college that would never take her husband’s name or dream of ending her career to raise children. In the Sims 3 she’s a married mother that stays home with the kids.


July 3, 2010
News

How To Switch Sides In City Of Heroes’ Going Rogue

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In this video documentary for Paragon Studio’s super hero MMO City of Heroes, the team talks us through the morality system that changes your villain into a hero and vice versa in the upcoming Going Rogue expansion.


July 1, 2010

Weighted Morality In Gaming

Philosophers and Theologians have been debating the mechanics of moral choice for millennia.


June 25, 2010
In Real Life

Chimpanzees Take Us Beyond Good And Evil

Annexing territory, sending out scouting groups, beating enemies to death and eating babies. It may sound like a plot to a particularly violent video game, but it’s really just chimpanzees, giving us some serious insight into human nature.


September 20, 2009
In Real Life

Alignment Error: Even Good Games Can Offer Bad Choices

Few things mar a game, especially a role-playing game, like being sold on creating a complex, even unique character and then being presented with tendentiously noble or evil choices to build out that role.


July 28, 2009
News

Army Of Two Sequel Will Pit Europe Vs. America In Morality Test

Army of Two: The 40th Day will expand its cooperative gameplay hook with “Morality Moments,” moral decisions that players will have to make together. An interesting twist on a familiar tactic. What’s interesting is what EA’s doing with that data.


June 10, 2009

Army Of Two’s Smartest Feature Guarantees Arguments

Before you roll your eyes at yet another game infused with an innovative morality system, consider the arresting E3 2009 debut of Army of Two’s co-op morality.