Tag: gaming
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Analog Rust
I. Twenty-five years.Twenty-five million specks of dust.The flakes of rustblew through plastic and boards:life passed into Hardware and Headspace,and linked cable and cord to my feeling of Home. Super Home Boy 64 I was,where I grew to love characterssaving kingdoms,and I traced their pixelsor painted their dotsinto the adventures I wrote. The polygons materializedand I…
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CappySteve Twitch Highlights: Black Mesa
Now on YouTube, I have begun archiving streams from the past, and uploading the video highlights to the Cipher Eye Media page. If you’re interested in the streaming process and some of the new gaming content I’m working on, checking out the page!
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play.matrix: Half Life – Part 1 is now live!
It has been a very productive couple of weeks as I make preparations to release some new content to the website. As I mentioned before, I’ve been experimenting with some gaming content as I capture and commentate on some of my favorite games. Finally, I plan to post several of these videos on YouTube in…
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Resident Evil: Revelations Review
Resident Evil: Revelations is everything that Resident Evil 6 should have been. There. I said it. If Capcom was smart, they would have just scrapped the original idea for Resident Evil 6 and instead released a multi-platform version of Revelations. Heck, they could’ve just called it Resident Evil 6: Revelations. RE fans would have been…
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Nintendo Direct Breakdown: May 17, 2013
On May 17th, 2013, Nintendo released their latest Direct announcement. While the previous Nintendo Direct unveiled many new games and big updates on titles for both the Wii U and 3DS, this edition of Nintendo Direct provided much smaller updates, but promised big things for the future. Right off the bat, Nintendo addressed their decision…
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Does Story Matter In Games?
On April 19th, Christofer Sundberg surprised the Twitter gaming community when the Just Cause developer and founder of Avalanche Studios posted, “Why should a game have an end? Why bother about story when all data proves that players don’t care?” He elaborated in a separate Twitter post: “6-12hrs [story driven] AAA games makes no sense…
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A Brief History: Leaving a Presence in the Video Game-Art Debate
Can video games be considered high art? I had originally written the below article way back in 2013. It was published on the former online gaming news source, GameHuddle, in the spring/summer of that year. Unfortunately, the company was sold only a few months after that and the website ceased to exist. In having a…
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Now on YouTube: Decipher the Media #6 and #7
Here’s the official videos for both episode #6 and #7 of Decipher the Media. For the future, I hope to be able to post the videos simultaneously with the audio for each episode release. I haven’t decided on the frequency of episode releases, since my schedule seems to fluctuate on a regular basis, but I…
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New on Wednesday, August 29th at 7:00PM ET
New for the Decipher the Media Podcast, videos will finally be up on the YouTube channel for both episode #6 and episode #7! Brandon Keenan and Gena Weiss talk about their indie film premiere: Back before the premiere of our indie film Body Farm in January, I had the chance to sit down with Brandon…
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New season of content: Decipher the Media and more…
This is more of a repost, but with a little more free time, I’m now able to release content that I’ve been sitting on for far to long. Coming up on the Cipher Eye Media release schedule are several more podcasts, in addition to a video or two from my video game project, play.matrix. OUT…
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