Wednesday, February 8 2012
Does Silence Speak in the Loudest Voice?: Misconceptions about Silent Protagonists in Video Games
Granted, Link does “hiyah,” “eyah,” and “ahh” his way through all of his post-64-bit adventures, but no amount of elfish interjections can change his status as a silent protagonist. Is a failure to communicate much, a failure to communicate?
Friday, May 13 2011
Portal 2: Cooperative Testing Initiative
A separate review for Portal 2's co-op? Of course! We here at PopMatters are no slouches, you know.
Monday, May 9 2011
Moving Pixels Podcast: Stepping Forward into ‘Portal 2’
Time to reconsider our roles as lab rats.
Wednesday, May 4 2011
“Her Name Is Caroline”: Identifying the Misbehaving Woman in ‘Portal 2’
By fulfilling the expected obligations of a 1950s “wife", Caroline sounds as if she might as well be married to Johnson, and after all, given Johnson's alignment with American exceptionalism and what it can achieve through technology, he is the “science” that she has married herself to.
Wednesday, April 27 2011
‘Portal 2’ and the Politics of Stupidity
Which is the dictator worthy of fear, the fool or the genius?
Wednesday, March 31 2010
An Intimate Moment With the Computer
I cared about GlaDOS only because she was the one directing me. Oh, and then I really cared about her because she wanted to kill me.
Monday, March 17 2008
Audiosurf
The real joy of Audiosurf is picking a song, any song, and seeing it literally appear before you as you travel and listen along.
Sunday, January 1 1995
Half-Life 2
Despite its pretty sheen, there have been compromises with this build.
