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2010: The Year in Downloadable
Game Content

For the first few years of the current console generation, it seemed like most developers hadn't quite wrapped their heads around the concept of Downloadable Content. The bulk of post-release DLC was limited to map packs for popular shooters, new outfits or skins for player-characters and new gear, power-ups and weapons to use in various games. These packs were nice bonuses for hardcore fans, but for the most part they had a whiff of the insubstantial about them, a hint of the nickel-and-dime....  read more

Start Press: Daddy's Love, His Yoke

“Then he just sat there holding the binoculars and watching the ashen daylight congeal over the land. He knew only that the child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.” (Cormac McCarthy, The Road) *** This past Sunday was Father’s Day, an occasion that has historically compelled me to look outward. It’s a day on which I’ve grown accustomed to considering my own dad, actively muting my lingering nitpicks with his job performance and focusing instead on the ferocity of the man’s affection; his contagious, untidy laughter; his irrepressibility; his resolve...  read more

Start Press: The Floating Gun Barrel

I watched the dawn of the first-person shooter genre in third person. It was my older brother Trey obsessively playing id Software’s Wolfenstein 3D at the family computer, while I skeptically eyed the proceedings over his shoulder. I had no interest in playing the game myself, steering that floating gun barrel down one indistinguishable stone corridor after another. Every few seconds he’d plug a Nazi or an attack dog. I never stuck around to see if he got a chance to nestle a bullet in Hitler’s pencil-thin moustache....  read more

BioShock 2 Review (Xbox 360)

Developers: 2K Marin, Digital Extremes Publisher: 2K GamesPlatforms: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC Welcome to the second coming of Rapture The star of 2007’s BioShock was not the faceless protagonist whose genuine identity was one of the game’s great revelations. Neither was it the power-mad Objectivist icon Andrew Ryan. It was Rapture, the failed utopia beneath the sea, as haunting as it was dreamlike. And it’s to Rapture that BioShock 2 returns, with its rotting architecture, its leaking machinery and its grand, gorgeous chaos....  read more