An Artist's Rendition of Modern Videogame Classics
In the latest addition to web-based artistic geekery, artist Max Fiedler has recreated widely popular, modern videogame covers with his own creative flourish. The series is titled “Cover Cover” and features famous gaming faces such as Isaac Clarke, John Marston and Nathaniel Drake. Does anyone else think that cartoon-ified Thane Krios looks a little like Mojo Jojo?... read more
Found in: Blogs, 1000 WordsThe Week in Gaming News
Our round-up of notable news from the world of gaming for the week of February 28th, 2011.... read more
Found in: Games, NewsRed Dead Redemption, Minecraft Win Big at Game Developers Choice Awards
Last night, the Game Developers Choice Awards and the Independent Games Festival were held at the GDC in San Fransisco. The evening’s big winner was Rockstar Games’ Red Dead Redemption, which took home Game of the Year in addition to three other awards.... read more
Found in: Games, NewsOn Videogame Criticism
[Editor's Note: I'm very pleased to share the following letter series, and I thought I'd give a brief preface to the conversation you're about to read. The past few years have seen the rise of some creative and intelligent new voices in games criticism, and Tom Bissell and Simon Ferrari stand out among the very best of them. Tom is an award-winning author whose new book Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter is one of the most purely enjoyable collections of videogame writing I've had the pleasure of reading. Simon is a doctoral student at Georgia Tech's well-regarded Digital Media program,... read more
Found in: Games, FeaturesInterview: Team Bondi's Brendan McNamara talks L.A. Noire
In early 1947, a young woman's murder rocked Los Angeles, California. Her name was Elizabeth Short, but newspapers called her “The Black Dahlia”, with photos of her mutilated corpse covering their front pages. In the years since, a good number of fictional tales have been crafted around the Black Dahlia case, but never one you can play. Until now, that is.... read more
Found in: Games, FeaturesThe 20 Best Songs in Videogames
The first commercial videogame involved navigating a rocket ship; it was created by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney in 1971. Music has been around for um… a lot longer than that. But the two have been intertwined from the nearly the beginning of gaming, as far back as Atari 2600, which allowed gamers to play alongside background “music,” which was really a series of simple loops. ... read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the Day2010: 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
Found in: Games, FeaturesThe 20 Best Videogames of 2010
This year, Sony and Microsoft both jumped onto the motion-sensing wagon trail, the God Of War series drew to a close, and lower-budget downloadable titles proved they could hold their own next to bajillion-budget mainstream games. read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayRed Dead Redemption Review (Xbox 360)
Developer: Rockstar San Diego Publisher: Rockstar Games Platforms: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 High times and cheap thrills on the last great American frontier “Change is only good when it makes things better.” “Old friends make the worst enemies.” Spoken in the early goings of Red Dead Redemption, these two sentiments encapsulate the successes and shortcomings of the game itself far more than they do any of its narrative themes. For even as Rockstar’s ambitious Western adventure strikes out in some promising new directions, it is held back at times by a certain slavishness to the developer’s own open-world storytelling formula.... read more
Found in: Games, ReviewsSalute Your Shorts: John Hillcoat's "Red Dead Redemption" Machinima
After the success and eventual cult following of his 2005 film The Proposition... read more
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