Tag: Video games
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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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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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Decipher the Media Podcast #7: discussing the medium of video games and E3 2018
Now available: Gee Marsh stops by on the podcast to talk about the medium of video games and the highlights from the Electronics Entertainment Expo (E3). Download it on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and stream it on YouTube and our Podbean page! Description: This is the first video game episode of the podcast as Gee Marsh…
Steven E. Croner | Cipher Eye Media 