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.

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

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

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

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

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

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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Zeithri said: Well, I care since I didn't find it the least funny :P But it's a matter of perception though. I never found these 'nerdrages' funny, just redicilous. Sol Invictus said: Who cares if it's fake? It's hilarious and that's what matters. Zeithri said: Fake, as always. Not fun either.

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

It seems that Demigod is finally in a largely playable state and attention can be shifted from getting the game to work over the Internet to the bugs that remain as well as feature requests. At the end of his latest journal entry, "Demigod nears its second month," Frogboy/Wardell talks about the features in the release candidate of the v1.1 patch and in a later thread he discusses some of the points in greater detail.
Team concede: If it looks like you’re going to lose, your team can vote to conc…  More

When a calf is born they don't leap from the womb steady on their feet. They stumble about, fall over, get back up and then do it all over again until they figure out how to walk.

While it's incredibly vain to quote myself, this has been Demigod's story. Many already know of the premature retail release forcing Stardock employees to return to work over Easter weekend to attempt a salvage of the situation. Multiplayer connectivity was plagued by issues with pirates being unfairly blamed by popular…  More