Realism in video games should serve the illusion of the game world, not replicate the reality of our own.
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Dancing Hasidic Robots Ask Us To ‘Hang Up The Phone’ In Gaga-Esque Music Video
Apparently Lipa Schmeltzer is a Hasidic pop super-star. I’m not very current on what’s trending in Hasidic circles, and I’m hopelessly bad at anything related to pop music, so I’m going off of the word on the proverbial street here. But I do have a definite phone addiction. A hopeless dependence on my “other wife” (according […]
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Do We Need Realism In Video Games?
I would play this if it were a game. In fact, I would prefer to play a game with unrealistic looking graphics like this if the game was fun and the combat engaging, than a game with realistic faces and poor gameplay. I doubt I’m alone. Is the quest for realism a waste of time? […]
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Will The PlayStation 4 Actually Be PlayStation 3 + Gaikai?
Will Sony surprise everyone by making its next-generation video game console the PlayStation 3, and use cloud-computing to run next-gen games? Probably not, but it’s an intriguing idea.
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A Closer Look At Combat In ‘Chivalry: Medieval Warfare’
When I expressed doubts earlier about first-person melee combat, several people reminded me of Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, a game that actually pulls off pretty engaging combat in first person. Chivalry: Medieval Warfare expands on this quite a bit, including lots of defensive moves like dodge, duck and jump – and of course, block […]
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Escapism
“My mom didn’t let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It’s all…
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Dark Souls Artorias of the Abyss Screenshots
The PC edition of From Software’s Dark Souls comes this August. Screenshots, so far at least, have only made the wait that much longer.
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Childhood
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Will Games Like ‘Horn’ Spell The End For Video Game Consoles?
Will better mobile games be the death of the video game consoles?
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CLANG Is Kickstarting Toward The Finish Line – UPDATE: Success!
Update: As of this morning, Clang has passed its $500,000 funding goal. Hopefully the next step will be an awesome sword-fighting game…and a price reduction for the Razer Hydra… With just 35 hours to go, Neal Stephenson’s CLANG project has less than $18,000 to go in its Kickstarter drive. For those of you interested in […]
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