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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land Stephen Totilo of MTV Multiplayer has noticed some striking similarities between Ubisoft’s new Prince of Persia title and Sony’s PlayStation 2 classic Shadow of the Colossus. Is it homage, coincidence, or straight up aping?
1Up’s former editor Patrick Klepek is now MTV’s current…Patrick Klepek. But joining Stephen Totilo to hold down the fort will be no easy task. Seriously, have you ever seen that movie The Devil Wears Prada? Imagine Totilo as Meryl Streep. We’re not sure how N’Gai fits in the picture during those Vs. Modes…hmm…we really should have thought this little film metaphor through before typing it all out and refusing to revise. In any case, congrats to Klepek—we wish him the best of luck in his new position. 1Up News Editor Patrick Klepek To Join MTV Multiplayer [mtv]
What do you get when you take some of the most well-spoken writers in the gaming press and throw them into a round table discussion on the year in video games? You get Slate Magazine’s first annual Gaming Club, which assembles Slate’s Chris Suellentrop, Newsweek’s N’Gai Croal, Seth Schiesel of the New York Times, and MTV’s Stephen Totilo to discuss the video games that made 2007 the “best year ever for video games.” They talk about the finer points of BioShock – the Citizen Kane of video games – versus Tetris, the joys of Desktop Tower Defense, the massive growth in the handheld gaming segment, and the future of gaming as we know it. Through twelve pages of back and forth and one podcast the gaming intelligentsia manage to cover the entire year and then some, and it is a fascinating read if you’ve got the time and vocabulary and cognitive power to keep up. In the latest post, Seth Schiesel manages to neatly sum up my main criticism of this Gaming Club concept.
