On playing with dolls, and your self.
In the first of what we hope to be many guest posts, C.J. Kershner discusses identity and existentialism with Double Fine’s Lee Petty, with a little bit of bestiality, necrophilia and incest thrown in for good measure.
We choose five of the year's best.
What a year. So many fantastic games, so many hours whiled away in videogame bliss. With a new year only a day away, it’s customary for the industry to look back and pick apart the offerings to find the best
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Picture the scene. Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Team Deathmatch. Highrise map. The score is perfectly balanced at 9900-9900. The next kill wins the match. You jump out of the window at one end of the map, and you
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Imagine, if you will, that you have just been struck over the bonce with the business end of an extremely heavy iron pipe. Factor in several probable knife stabbings and an unending barrage of punchs and kicks. The sliver of
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Last year was a bumper crop for games, with enormous triple-A titles like Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Assassin’s Creed 2 finding their way onto our consoles in the final quarter of the year
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Recent playtime with New Super Mario Bros. Wii had me musing over the Ice Flower, one of several new power-ups in this instalment of the Mario franchise, and one that left me feeling pretty ambivalent about it. But it got
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Recently, I’ve been painfully aware of it. There is a certain stigma to being a ‘gamer’. To some, it labels us as nerds, geeks, losers. Many perceive it as a childish pursuit, as if it were still the end of
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I got a staggering amount of games for Christmas. More games than I will reasonably get through for a number of months, particularly as the first quarter of this new year is absolutely packed with triple-AAA titles that I wont
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Looking back, and forward.
It’s been a busy, exciting year, both for myself personally and for videogames in general. After a few reviews posted in October 2008 kicked off the infinitecontinues blog, it wasn’t until March of this year that I posted again –
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'Why I love video games.'
Normally I’m not a huge fan of Charlie Brooker; I find his overly cynical and acerbic views quite irritating. But this article is spot on. The picture he paints of a typical non-gamer picking up the controller for a quick
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