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Opinion: The GlaDOS Effect - Can Antagonists Rule The World?

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2008-12-02 08:00:08 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
 
...GameSetWatch creator and Gamasutra/Game Developer publisher Simon Carless muses about what it would be like in a world where the bad guys ruled the world of games - and, heck, who are the bad guys, anyhow This was a triumph - I'm making a note here: huge success As everyone knows, the one truly memorable character in Portal was GlaDOS, the...
 
Tags: guys, bad guys ruled, bad, antagonist, video game antagonist, memorable character, character, games, anonymous lead character
 
 
 
 
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GameSetLinks: Welcome To The Otherland

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2008-12-02 00:00:00 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...GameSetLinks, this time out, headed up, at least visually, by the completely bonkers 'cyberpunk' PC MMO Otherland, which is the only game I've seen that makes Second Life's mandelbrot chic excesses look visually tame Luckily, there's some other stuff in here to make your brains explode less, including the latest instalment of the adorably...
 
Tags: art-games, art, art games, games, game, tiny game, ochos locos, kenka banchou series, kenka banchou
 
 
 
 
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Column: 'Game Mag Weaseling': Thanksgiving Break

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2008-12-01 16:00:35 by Kevin Gifford in GameSetWatch
Game Mag Weaseling' is a weekly column by Kevin Gifford which documents the history of video game magazines, from their birth in the early '80s to the current day Everyone needs a break now and again -- I know I do, after having written about what seems like 20,000 magazines over the years here -- so for this holiday, I thought I'd cover a...
 
Tags: mag, design, edge-like visual design, hobbyist mag, game mag, visual design, computer mag, amateur-radio mag, cover design
 
 
 
 
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GDC Europe To Take Place At 2009 GamesCom

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2008-12-01 08:00:59 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...GamesCom in Cologne next August. Looking forward to supping Kolsch over there with you good Euro devs next August Gamasutra parent Think Services has announced its flagship European event, Game Developers Conference (GDC) Europe for August 17th-19th 2009, alongside new German consumer games event GamesCom, with former GCDC head Frank Sliwka...
 
Tags: gdc, gdc europe, europe, gdc canada, gdc event, austin gdc, event, event director, gamescom event
 
 
 
 
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GameSetLinks: The Ecclesiastical Comics

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2008-12-01 00:00:31 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...GameSetLinks again, headed by Eurogamer covering Xbox Live Community Games - and I'm delighted to see obvious mainstream coverage of this particularly difficult to navigate part of the New Xbox Experience. This is why recommendations are increasingly important, folks Also hanging out in here - the cute Castlevania: Order Of Ecclesia comics...
 
Tags: free digital version, fun taito recommendations, recommendations, digital version, castlevania, fun, xbox, wii vie, xbox experience
 
 
 
 
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GameSetInterview: 'Bleep To Gold - Remixing The Mega Man 9 Soundtrack'

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2008-11-30 16:00:52 by jeriaska in GameSetWatch
...GameSetWatch-exclusive interviews with game musicians, conducted by Jeriaska. He starts things out with a great chat to the Inti Creates folks behind the Mega Man 9 remix album Following the release of Mega Man 9, the Inti Creates sound team developed an arranged music album composed of remixed songs from the NES-style platformer Produced by...
 
Tags: music, compose music, mega, music album, original soundtrack album, original soundtrack, soundtrack, music school, music forward
 
 
 
 
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In-Depth: The Difficult Birth Of EA's Army of Two

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2008-11-30 08:00:16 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...Games Summit recently to talk about it - as Schneider noted: "Your feature list is not a measure of success The production history of EA Montreal's Army of Two is an interesting one, with the company's decision to delay the game just before its release widely covered in the media And during a Gamasutra-attended lecture [thanks, Mathew Kumar!]...
 
Tags: production, production history, unusual production schedule, actual production phase, production phase, army, schneider cited, schneider, schneider noted
 
 
 
 
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Exploring Online Worlds: The Oddness Of Trukz

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2008-11-30 00:00:14 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...games that, well, other folks don't. This time - the browser-based trucking game (yes, really!) Trukz Here's an overview of Trukz , a persistent browser-based trucking simulation Name: Trukz Developer: Trukz Established: May 2007 How it Works: Trukz is entirely browser-based and runs in HTML. Navigation and gameplay are accomplished via mouse...
 
Tags: trukz, trukz juices, worlds, trukz fills, trukz requires players, elite, game elite, online worlds, game
 
 
 
 
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GameSetNetwork: Best Of The Week

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2008-11-29 16:00:57 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...GameSetWatch-specific comments for those still recovering from Turkey Day The Last Express : Revisiting An Unsung Classic Based on some chance interviews conducted after Jordan Mechner's Comic-Con lecture , Chris Remo has done an excellent job of documenting The Last Express , a beautiful late '90s Mechner-authored adventure game that was...
 
Tags: game, adventure game, ps3 strategy game, game censorship, valkyria chronicles interview, valkyria chronicles, notebook, games, moral panic