When we talk about video games as a ‘medium’ we tend to use language like ‘immature’, ‘young’. But video games have been around since 1961 — isn’t it about time we stopped treating video games like a disobedient child? Shouldn’t it be able to look after itself by now? And does it even make sense to talk about media in terms of age? We explore these issues with Dan Golding, the man behind Crikey’s brilliant new Game On blog.
Earlier this week this story was posted, a story which claimed that video games have a ‘problematised’ view of religion. But what does ‘promblematised’ even mean? And is religion represented fairly in video games? We catch up with frequent Kotaku contributor Adam Ruch to discuss.
We haven’t had a good old Objection at Kotaku Australia for a while now, so when Dylan Burns, founder of Pixel Hunt, came a-knockin’ with the idea of discussing Batman: Arkham City, one of my favourite games of last year I quickly said yes. Apparently Dylan wasn’t too enamoured with the game!
It’s been too long since we’ve had an old fashioned Objection! So we’ve decided to take one of the most controvesial perennial topics, game pricing, and take a different angle: are we too entitled? Should we really complain about the price of games when we, as consumers, have more choice than we’ve ever had before?
Tokyo Games Show has just wrapped up and in a few days the Eurogamer Expo will be kicking off. Trade shows like E3, TGS, PAX and GamesCom are meant to be the highlights of a game journalist’s calendar, but how relevant are they? In a time when everything is live-blogged and streamed, is there even a need for us to go any more?
Remember FMV – the stuff they put on television ads to make your parents buy you a Mega CD? Would you like to see it return, or should it be consigned to the garbage bin of video game history to fester and rot for all eternity? Darren Wells, Editor of OXM Australia has a soft spot for FMV; I want it to be cast into a fiery pit of sulphur until the end of days.
Only one major press conference to go – and it’s arguably the most important one. Nintendo has promised to reveal Project Cafe at its presentation tonight, which takes place at 2am AET. I’ll be live blogging the event for those who feel like staying up – but in the mean time I roped Nintendo expert Daniel ‘Vooks’ Vuckovic into discussing our predictions for tonight’s event. What is Project Cafe? What games can we expect to see? Will Reggie finally do the moonwalk? The questions go on and on…
Welcome to Objection! This is where we take the time to go on-depth on current gaming issues, and let you guys continue the discussion in the comments section. This time, in the wake of our extensive feature on the Australian Christian Lobby, we decided to ask ourselves a question – do we, as gamers, pay too much attention to the ACL? Is this a healthy course of action? To discuss we brought in Jeremy ‘Junglist’ Ray, a Christian gamer, and the current host of the 5 Inch Floppy.
