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Video Games Do the Funniest Things

Posted on June 27, 2012 | 27 Comments
I don’t normally bother with E3. As the game industry’s biggest get-together of the year, there’s a disturbing amount of froth on display; bikinied models, shiny publicity booths and half-brained...
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Playwrights

Posted on June 13, 2012 | 1 Comment
This is a response to an article by writer and presenter Robert Florence, whom I admire very much. Videogame writing sucks, yes? It’s all space marines, explosions and sexism. Where’s...
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Posted on June 13, 2012 | 4 Comments
It doesn’t matter how many coins you insert now: arcade gaming is dead. Peripherals and flat screen TVs have brought the IMAX gaming experience directly into our front room. There’s...
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Ketchup, Rations, and a Handkerchief

Posted on May 29, 2012 | No Comments
Speaking in the December issue of gamesTM, translator Jeremy Blaustein has nothing good to say about Hideo Kojima: “He simply doesn’t understand the nature of game translations and the need...
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Close Ups: The RPD Building

Posted on May 15, 2012 | No Comments
September 28th, 1998. With Brad dead and the Nemesis charging after her, Jill Valentine throws herself through the double doors of the RPD entrance lobby. Except for a few uniformed...
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Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3: Representations of War

Posted on April 18, 2012 | 1 Comment
There’s something very unsettling about the Modern Warfare series. The original game opened with the SAS unceremoniously executing guards while they slept in their bunk beds. From there it went...
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Zipper Interactive: A Personal Friend of Mine

Posted on April 3, 2012 | 5 Comments
As a general rule, I prefer to keep myself out of these columns. I wouldn’t expect you to be interested in my life; most of my time is spent in...
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Catherine – A Bronze Nightmare

Posted on March 20, 2012 | No Comments
Each of Catherine’s two distinctive gamescapes are quantified by a visual scoring system. By day, as Vincent Brookes lounges in The Stray Sheep bar with his bummed-out friends, right and...
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Grand Theft Auto IV, Hitman and Player Agency

Posted on March 6, 2012 | 1 Comment
‘‘After you walk into a village and you see 50 children, all sitting neatly in a row, against a church wall, each with their throats cut and their hands chopped...
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L.A. Noire: Death and Consequences

Posted on February 21, 2012 | 1 Comment
Computer games suffer from an image problem. The mainstream press sees games as either a curiosity or a threat, bemused by the enormous sales figures of the Wii or outraged...
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