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PAUSE: Waltz With Bashir artist on what a child sees in Fruit Ninja.
Read the rest of Asaf Hanuka’s The Realist here. (He worked on one of my favorite animated films
Final Fantasy XIII-2: A chat with Square Enix’s Motomu Toriyama
The Final Fantasy series is at a crossroads: After the poor reception of the MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV, developer Square Enix chose to revisit the sporadically stunning but ultimately flawed Final Fantasy XIII, releasing a direct sequel to that game rather than introduce an entirely new installment t
Can we talk about games without talking about ourselves?
I’m sure you’ve heard the complaint before. All art is a subjective experience. So what place do we have pretending to be “critics” when objective criteria for analysis doesn’t really exist? Leigh Alexander raises the question in an interesting Edge piece: People don’t talk about Ocarina in terms of
Killing Spree Bee: The alphabet written out in dead space marines
How many space marines have been capped in Halo 3 multiplayer? Enough for the entire alphabet to be recreated out of mangled corpses. The Halo Corpse Alphabet was a rather macabre project with the goal being to represent every letter of the alphabet by the twisted, curved, stretched, and otherwise
JRR Tolkien’s prose inspired many games, but the Nobel jury was not impressed.
Author of The Lords of the Rings, a book which influenced exactly half of all computer games made before 1990, J.R.R. Tolkien was once nominated for a Nobel prize in literature. He didn’t get it. Why? The prose of Tolkien who was nominated by his friend and fellow fantasy author CS Lewis “has no
Star Wars Uncut roars to completion, 15-seconds at a time.
Escapist points out that there’s a new video going around the YouTube that’s a scene-for-scene remake of Star Wars: A New Hope, as made in fifteen-second chunks. Some chunks feature wicked stop-motion animation, including a killer thing where Darth Vader is a spontaneously emptying and refilling bot
Will politicians of futures use games, not PACs?
As a means of conveying information, media is power. Our games can entertain us and even teach us – what’s keeping them from being used to influence us as well? With Alex Gibney’s recent short documentary When Mitt Romney Came To Town taking heat for using the medium of film to do just that, this
With this map, you’ll never get lost in Hyrule.
This map was an obvious labor of love for Bill Mudron, who wanted to celebrate Zelda’s 25th year anniversary as much as anyone else. The map measures 24×36 inches and is available for purchase here. Sure, it’s not cheap, but cut down a few dozen bushes and you’ll get the money back in no time. -Jos
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