I’ve had a paid GameTap account for a while now, and I’ve also been a fan of American McGee’s previous works, so I’ve been eagerly awaiting the Grimm games. I wasn’t disappointed.
If you don’t have GameTap, you can sign up for a free account and play the first episode. I highly recommend you consider getting [...]
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I’ve been putting this off for too long, so I finally sat down to write an analysis of Bioshock. I’ll focus on the concept of “free will” and how it is explored in the game. This will definitely contain spoilers, so don’t read on if you haven’t played the game.
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I was lucky enough to buy a PSP back when they were ridiculously easy to downgrade and hack, though I hear it’s still possible even with newer firmware versions. I’ve helped a few friends downgrade and install after-market firmware, and it’s pretty safe and definitely worth the effort.
I thought I’d compile a list of some [...]
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Earlier I wrote a post discussing whether video games can be art or not. Now, I’m convinced they can.
Just this weekend, I finished playing The Longest Journey and it’s sequel Dreamfall. They’re both essentially point-and-click adventure games (my current favorite genre of video games), but Dreamfall has some lame combat/stealth segments tacked on to appease [...]
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I’ve been having a lot of fun playing Nexuiz recently. I have played previous versions, but the newest one looks amazing. Full HDR effects, lots of detail everywhere. If you have a good graphics card, I’d highly recommend you try it out.
Anyway, installation is fairly simple. Nexuiz is in the Ubuntu repositories, but I recommend [...]
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I always love creative art direction, both in movies and games. I’m a huge Tim Burton fan, and I love the twisted worlds of Tim Schafer just as much. Unfortunately, the most creative video games often are overlooked by the masses, who are content with buying the same Madden or Halo game each year. So, [...]
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I’ve been meaning to write an article on this subject for a while now, but when I started to write I realized I wasn’t exactly sure where I stood on the issue. So, I decided to take a different approach when writing this post: I wrote a draft of it off the top of my [...]