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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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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'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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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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At the weekend, I found myself in Birmingham at the British International Comics Show (BICS), despite being completely ambivalent to comics while I was growing up. But a friend of mine was keen to go, and I decided to tag
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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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