Recently I’ve noticed an upturn in the explosive rage I experience during particularly taxing sections of the games I’ve been playing. My girlfriend asserts that my smashing of the controller into the sofa is as comical a sight as it
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I’m going to have to put two different hats on for this post. As a designer who has straddled both advertising and videogaming disciplines, commercials promoting videogames are obviously something of interest to me. I’ve just seen this Uncharted 2:
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After reaching the fantastically creepy morgue section the other night (“When’s it going to stop?” said my girlfriend of the moaning) in Batman: Arkham Asylum, it got me thinking of times when videogames have actually really chilled me.
Two moments come
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The very first ‘moral dilemma’ in Sucker Punch’s ‘inFamous’ is to decide whether to share food supplies with other hungry civilians or to kill them with your special abilities to hoard the food for yourself, your friend and your girlfriend.
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