People don’t like change. Anyone who has read their Facebook feed after another of many re-designs knows that Change Is Bad. New things are terrible. Technology is suspect and will probably be used for nefarious purposes. Big Brother is watching you and cyber criminals want to steal your credit card and run up a $1200 bill calling dodgy sex lines. If only we’d stuck to the old ways, living in mud huts and dying before the age of 25 without ever seeing any of the world beyond our village. We’d have been safe from all the vaccines, the airplanes and the Internet.
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review: Silent Hill Downpour and a new CLR Blog Post
Downpour’s recognition of and homage to its more successful predecessors align it comfortably in the spirit of the franchise, reusing familiar sound assets from as far back as...
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review: binary domain for california literary review
Binary Domain brings to the playing field everything that is expected of a modern day title: stunning graphics, a gripping narrative and some monumental set pieces. However,...
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Review: Dead Space 2
Dead Space 2 had a Hell of a lot to live up to. Despite meagre sales, the original Dead Space was one of the best games of 2008, with its macabre gameplay and ‘no one can hear...
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Review: Eternal Sonata
Like all games of its kind, Eternal Sonata treads a very narrow margin of error. Its grand finale moved me to tears. It would probably move many others to vomit. Eternal Sonata...
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on an assassin
The phrase “late to the party” springs to mind whenever I boot up my xbox360 these days and spend the evening guiding the assassin Altair over the rooftops of Damascus. When...
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People don’t like change. Anyone who has read their Facebook feed after another of many re-designs knows that Change Is Bad. New things are terrible. Technology is suspect and will probably be used for nefarious purposes. Big Brother is watching you and cyber criminals want to steal your credit card and run up a $1200 bill calling dodgy sex lines. If only we’d stuck to the old ways, living in mud huts and dying before the age of 25 without ever seeing any of the world beyond our village. We’d have been safe from all the vaccines, the airplanes and the Internet.
Perhaps I got a bit too tongue in cheek there, but it’s a pretty...
the new xbox dashboard
People don’t like change. Anyone who has read their Facebook feed after another of many re-designs knows that Change Is Bad. New things are terrible. Technology is suspect and will probably be used for nefarious purposes. Big Brother is watching you and cyber criminals want to steal your credit card and run up a $1200 bill calling dodgy sex lines. If only we’d stuck to the old ways, living in mud huts and dying before the age of 25 without ever seeing any of the world beyond our village. We’d have been safe from all the vaccines, the airplanes and the Internet.
Perhaps I got a bit too tongue in cheek there, but it’s a pretty...
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I recently joined MCV UK, a nice round up of game industry news thats less academically driven than much of the content on Gamasutra but more serious and informative than Kotaku. If you’re interested in the games industry it’s definitely worth a look in, you can register for free and access the digital edition of their weekly publication in a PDF to browse at leisure. While reading the most recent edition, however, I came across a piece of (admittedly not stringent) data which startled me:
There is a pretty impressive gap in the market right there which isn’t being targeted right now. Perhaps it’s because the...
a concerning precedent
I recently joined MCV UK, a nice round up of game industry news thats less academically driven than much of the content on Gamasutra but more serious and informative than Kotaku. If you’re interested in the games industry it’s definitely worth a look in, you can register for free and access the digital edition of their weekly publication in a PDF to browse at leisure. While reading the most recent edition, however, I came across a piece of (admittedly not stringent) data which startled me:
There is a pretty impressive gap in the market right there which isn’t being targeted right now. Perhaps it’s because the... About us
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