Joseph Bernstein

347 posts

Humanity quite willing to pay for cards against them

The fellows behind Cards Against Humanity, the awesome-Apples-to-Apples-with-a-filthy-mind game, released a pay-what-you-see-fit holiday pack, and it’s netted a neat profit of over $70,000.  Instead of buying all the boar sperm and condoms they could – and they could have bought a lot – CaH LLC dona

The hysterically incongruous dialogue of Resident Evil 2

At the beginning of Resident Evil 2, Leon, the game’s hero, encounters a pile of butchered bodies near the entrance to the Raccoon City Police Station. As you explore the prerendered, fixed-camera scene, one of hundreds in the first few RE games, you have the option to interact with a bank of phones

The life that games saved

It’s not the time for us to write about what happened in Connecticut. It’s not the time, in my opinion, for anyone to write speculatively about the role or lackthereof of video games vis a vis what happened in Connecticut. It’s just not right, not now, not with children still to be buried – and this

Link: selfless hero or destructive jackass?

Imagine: you live in a small town, a sunny place in the woods where some people have summer homes, little vegetable gardens, even a dairy cow or two. No one is rich but no one is hurting for cash, either. It’s such a sweet town that no one even bothers locking their doors. The only real problem in t

Recreating the recreated arcade experience

How do you emulate an experience? That’s the question that Rantmedia Games is trying to answer with their Vectrex Regeneration, the iCade recreation of the Vectrex, the 1982 vector-graphics system that itself aimed to recreate the arcade experience at home. This piece at Ars Technica is fascinating,

Why we need to stop criticizing game company CEOs

Bobby Kotick, the brash, outspoken, much-maligned New Yawhkah who is the CEO of Activision Blizzard, came in for the New York Times profile treatment over the weekend. It won’t do much to change the gaming community’s perception of him: Even in high school in Roslyn, N.Y., he had a taste for showman

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