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Wednesday, February 10 2010

0 Day Attack on Earth

The game evokes the feel of a classic monster movie with its giant aliens rampaging through famous cities.

Monday, February 8 2010

Torchlight

Once you've got the hang of it, you can play Torchlight while you're having a conversation or watching TV or eating dinner.

Friday, February 5 2010

Guitar Hero: Van Halen

In 1984, Dave was being mischievous. In 2009, it's kind of, uh, skeevy.

Wednesday, February 3 2010

Yoga

Here is a video game where you are better off getting a cheap DVD than bothering with the interactive version.

Monday, February 1 2010

Rogue Warrior

Playing Rogue Warrior is like listening to Mickey Rourke mutter to himself about being trapped in a video game for four hours.

Friday, January 29 2010

Dragon Age: Origins

I could make decisions based upon what I thought was right and wrong for my characters rather than what I thought would best “game” the system.

Peggle Nights

Peggle may be coasting into the 2010s, but it’s still Peggle. People still love it.

Wednesday, January 27 2010

Gyromancer

It’s hard enough to follow someone using accurate medieval vocabulary in real life without using it to break up a gemstone matching game.

NCAA Basketball 10

Unless you went to a hoops power school or have a relative in the game, why are you playing NCAA 10 over NBA Live 2010?

Monday, January 25 2010

Dark Void

An homage to the pulp sci-fi of the 50s, the Void is a fascinating world, so that makes it all the more painful to watch as this new universe is wasted so completely.

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Tuesday, February 2 2010

The Art of Place in Hitman: Blood Money

A game isn’t just its content or game design alone, but rather, the space created when all these pieces come together.

Thursday, January 14 2010

The ‘Assassins’ Religion

The Assassin's Creed games are interested in presenting a secular form of faith, suggesting that rationalism and faith can coexist despite their seemingly and sometimes contradictory elements.

Tuesday, December 8 2009

Farmville: Fetch Me My Manure Boots

The surging popularity of the virtual farming game 'FarmVille' seems to imply dissatisfaction with almost every aspect of modern life -- except maybe virtual reality.

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Monday, February 1 2010

The Cult of Kindle and the Myth of Digital Utopia

If I could read more with a Kindle, it stood to reason that I wasn’t reading enough without one. Getting and consuming increasingly MORE information is an end in of itself these days.

Wednesday, September 30 2009

The New American Spook Country

Spook Country is about America’s loss of innocence, its various ways of remembering the past, and an attempt to find a way of reconciling those memories with the present.

Thursday, June 18 2009

The New Games Journalism

The most useful moments for New Games Journalists are ones that occur in multiplayer, describing experiences that could never occur during just a general session of play.

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