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 'Twas a great day in gaming When the godfathers of gib John Carmack and Romero did hack and ad-lib. For they gave unto PCs +mlook in Quake and changed forever the gaming landscape. For many a moon all had their voice: Consoles had Mario, Sonic, and Final Fantasy IV. If strategy and shooter were your poison of choice what better control than mouse and keyboard? But alas! Alak! This Golden Age of understanding was never to last For consoles were simply uncontent with their lot. What started as a strategy, be… More |
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If you need an introduction to this memelet, check out the video below first, also courtesy of YouTube and Mashable: And finally... … More
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 In his latest video entitled "Something Worth Fighting For: Video Games and Controversy," Daniel Floyd touches on something profound. He goes beyond all the "murder simulator," Hot Coffee, Modern Warfare 2 in DC, and Mass Effect "sex simulator" scandals and challenges everyone in the gaming industry to defend those projects that stand poised to push the medium from "making toys" to an artform at the cost causing discomfort and offence. The game at the heart of his lecture/talk/presentation is Six… More
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 Once more the Blagonets is abuzz with inaccurate pro-DRM sentiment. This time it's not due to false reports that pirates were somehow responsible for bringing a game's servers to its knees (here's the real story), but rather an incorrect understanding (and incomplete reporting) of a developer's copy protection measures.
If you haven't heard about Eidos' “innovative” copy protection yet, basically pirates have found that Batman's Glide ability is deactivated at a critical point in the game and in… More
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 For awhile we were told video games were recession-proof. Some gamers held this up as a kind of trophy. This was good for the executives who were trying to convince their shareholders and potential investors not to pull their money out of a luxury industry during a recession. Parallels were drawn between the role of film during the great depression and the role games could play during this recession.
The predictions were proved true time and again throughout 2008 as hit game after hit game kept … More
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 The year is 1992 and we're visiting my mom's childhood friend. In truth, I noticed the PC in the back room the second we entered. It always took me hours to work up the courage to ask anyone hosting my parents whether I could play on their computer. Luckily these folks knew me and sent me on my merry way as soon as the greetings were over. This PC was much better than the old 8088 XT I had at home - it had a colour screen. For a moment I regretted not bringing my own game disks along. I had at l… More
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When one hears the words "South African film" uttered together one thinks Mr. Bones and Tsotsi. Perhaps Faith Like Potatoes and Hansie or even the more obscure Catch a Fire, Power of One, and The Long Run come to mind.
It seems as if it's always a comedy of errors, slapstick, or politically-charged drama. We lack proper action films, thrillers, and even crime/mystery movies, though we certainly have the local source material and local talent to pull it off. What we lack is the budget of Holly- an… More
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 Believe it! Links or it didn't happen, I hear you exclaim?
This is according to LazyGamer, a group of fellow South African gaming bloggers, who got their information from WiiNintendo.net which credits what is widely accepted as the original source of the list (ah Internet and digital age, how you've sucked the fun out of "broken telephone"). Apparently you can type RICKROLL into Scribblenauts which will cause a reasonable facsimile of Rick Astley to be spawned in the level. He even does a little … More
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In the spirit of Snail's Gamer of the Week column on Limit Break I just had to share this one. I'm certainly not claiming that "t1hs freekout's fo'r33lz, yo" but regardless of whether it is or not it's chuckleworthy, if a little disturbing. Talk about the human cost of MMORPGs. If everything in this video is as it seems then this kid's mother is doing him a favour by forcing him out of WoW.
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Creating the right atmosphere is key to telling memorable stories. As a picture paints a thousand words, so music builds atmosphere in a way words simply can't. Good music can be the difference between a compelling but ultimately forgettable experience and one where a few bars gets you reminscing. The depths (or heights) to which good video game scores move us is attested to by the fact that talented musicians record themselves playing the songs and pet owners teach their Cockatiels to whistle t… More
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