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Column: The Game Anthropologist: 'A Community That Writes About Games'

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2008-06-30 16:00:48 by Mike Walbridge in GameSetWatch
...writes because: It's still important for me to be able to say things I want when there is nowhere to publish them Kieron Gillen is also successful, having written at many mainstream publications. I've been a games journalist for a decade at least. 13 years. RPS (Rock, Paper, Shotgun) is an outlet for our PC stuff because we're not seeing...
 
Tags: games, games journalism, play games, play, hope, hope games, games criticism, video games, criticism
 
 
 
 
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Denis Dyack Writes for Edge

2008-07-28 04:54:16 by Editor in N4G.com : News Feed : gaming
 
...writes There are some people out there that have a complete and utter disdain for the cut scene. Many developers knock the cut scene because it takes away interactivity, the key component of interactive entertainment We've seen games like Half-Life never enter a cut scene. Meanwhile we have Metal Gear Solid, which uses lengthy cut scenes to...
 
Tags: cut scene, denis dyack writes, cut scenes, lengthy cut scenes, story, metal gear solid, utter disdain, key component, developers knock
 
 
 
 
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Peter Molyneux Writes for Edge

2008-08-04 01:52:11 by Editor in N4G.com : News Feed : gaming
 
Peter Molyneux writes There's no innovation going on in games right now." You know the first time that I heard that sentence? 1987 It has always been the same, and it will continue to be the same. People also say that there's no innovation in films and books, and then there's a flash of writing, a clear blue sky, and you get a Harry Potter
 
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Defending the Plastic Guitar!

2008-12-05 03:09:45 by Editor in N4G.com : News Feed : gaming
 
...Writes: "I play real Guitar and Guitar Hero Being a fan of both, I've been subject to numerous arguments over and over about how playing Guitar Hero or Rock Band is a waste of time and that 'nerds' should try picking up a real instrument and do something productive for a change. It was in this week's edition of NME (a British Indie Music...
 
Tags: guitar hero, play real guitar, real instrument, site writes, rock band, numerous arguments, fan, time, productive
 
 
 
 
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Ex-Game Rater Dishes the Dirt ESRB Boss Fires Back

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2008-03-06 13:28:23 by GamePolitics in GamePolitics.com
...writes that the system needs to be fixed in order to keep government censors from stepping in. He offers a six-point solution which includes 1.) Dropping the Adults Only rating and and adding a T-16 to go along with the current Teen rating, which is intended for those 13 and older 2. Actually playing the games. This has already become a...
 
Tags: esrb, raters, stands, esrb stands, full-time content raters, bonner writes, short esrb stint, writes, bonner
 
 
 
 
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Best AoC review evah!

2008-06-17 05:14:24 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog
 
...writes a lot less, and his blog entries are nowadays often just one-liner links. Which is a shame, because WHEN he writes, he writes so extremely well. His analysis of Age of Conan is spot on, quote: "You can have a server bugfest and a client that barely runs on year-old machines - but all is forgiven, as long as you can set things on fire ...
 
Tags: niche, people, hardcore gamers, scott jennings, fire, scott, fairly, hardcore, virtual people
 
 
 
 
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Tobold's MMORPG Blog: Best AoC review evah!

2008-06-17 01:16:36 by Editor in VirginWorlds MMO News
 
...writes a lot less, and his blog entries are nowadays often just one-liner links. Which is a shame, because WHEN he writes, he writes so extremely well. His analysis of Age of Conan is spot on, quote: "You can have a server bugfest and a client that barely runs on year-old machines - but all is forgiven, as long as you can set things on fire ...
 
Tags: mmorpg, niche, people, hardcore gamers, scott jennings, fire, scott, fairly, hardcore
 
 
 
 
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Irish Music for Videogame Music Fans

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2008-08-22 16:21:00 by Chris Kohler in Wired: Game|Life
...writes In a perfect world, Mitsuda would have created an arranged album for Chrono Cross , too, but instead all we have is this sprawling 3-disc original soundtrack. Not that it's anything to sneeze at. The opening track alone, "Scars of Time," is what inspired me to actually learn to play Irish whistle, and it's what most people think of...
 
Tags: music, irish music, videogame music, rpg music, rpg, irish music collection, irish traditional music, game music fans, game music album
 
 
 
 
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Apricot Team Selected For Fully Open Source 3D Game

2008-01-02 07:15:28 by admin in Video Games Blog
 
...writes "The Linux Game Tome notes that the final team to produce a fully Open Source 3D game using the CrystalSpace engine and Blender has been chosen. The project (known as Apricot) aims to produce a cross-platform, 3D game with completely Free (CCA) graphics, music and code. An important side-effect of the project is to improve open source...
 
Tags: source, source shooter games, games, apricot, apricot team, open-source, source tools, free software shooters, game
 
 
 
 
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Warner Backs Blu-Ray. End Times For HD-DVD?

2008-01-07 15:26:12 by admin in Video Games Blog
 
...writes "The NY Times reports: In addition to Apple, Warner Brothers is now going to throw its weight behind the Blu-ray format for high-definition disks. Warner has been the only major studio to publish its movies in both Blu-ray and HD DVD formats. Today, the studio announced that from now on, it would only issue movies in Blu-ray. Richard...
 
Tags: blu-ray, dvd, warner, hd-dvd, blu-ray format, format, dvd formats, warner brothers, times