Tag Archives: videogames

Fanboys: These Days’ Mods and Rockers

By Jens | Published: March 2, 2010
When I was writing about the iPad and technicity, I noticed that the notion of technicity can also be applied to the scourge of the game world: Fanboys, and their hatred of other people’s choices. To recapitulate what technicity means: it is an “aspect of identity expressed through the subject’s relationship with technology. Particular tastes [...]
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Should I buy a PlayStation 3 or an Elite X-Box 360?

By Parker Mason | Published: September 22, 2009
Last Christmas, my roommate Claudio’s brother gave him an X-Box 360. I subsequently spent most of January and April playing Halo 3 online. (I was away for most of February and March.) While we bought a few other games, they were pretty much shelved permanently, and I never even tried the campaign mode of Halo. Multi-player [...]
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Left 4 Dead in the Aussie Censorship System

By Jens | Published: September 21, 2009
It looks like Left 4 Dead 2 has been banned in Australia. The reason: [C]lose in attacks cause copious amounts of blood spray and splatter, decapitations and limb dismemberment as well as locational damage where contact is made to the enemy which may reveal skeletal bits and gore. This was not deemed suitable for 15-year-olds. Despite the [...]
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Policenauts Fan Translation Finally Sees Release

By Jens | Published: September 1, 2009
Snatcher is one of my all-time favourite games. I’m lucky enough to own the original game for the Sega CD. After reading a review in a German gaming magazine, I bought Hideo Kojima’s early masterpiece right away. In this cyberpunk adventure you play as Gillian Seed, a “Runner”. Your job is to track down the source [...]
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How I Met the Inventor of the Videogame

By Jens | Published: August 7, 2009
Ralph Baer, inventor of the videogame console, recently came to Berlin to celebrate the online launch of the “History of Video Games Timeline” by the Berlin Computer Game Museum. Quite an exciting moment for me, and probably the last chance to have a chat with the man behind the craze that touched our lives and [...]
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Community-based video game funding – could it work?

By Jens | Published: July 30, 2009
Gabe Newell recently suggested letting gamers fund a title, and in the process cutting out the middle-man that is the publisher. “One of the areas that I am super interested in right now is how we can do financing from the community. So right now, what typically happens is you have this budget — it [...]
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Is the Videogame Industry Recession Proof?

By Jens | Published: January 28, 2008
Will the US fall into a recession? Maybe. Will the videogame industry? Probably not, reports bloggingstocks.com: According to The Wall Street Journal, “strong holiday sales of its Wii video game console and Nintendo DS portable game device helped Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) nearly double its nine-month net profit and raise its sales forecasts for the third time [...]
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PTC VS ESA’s PAC

By Jens | Published: January 20, 2008
The election is looming and the video game industry realized that in order to stay strong going forward, it can’t rely on fanboys to promote its agenda. That’s why the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) will soon begin spreading money around to candidates for federal office. The video game publishers’ organization has created a political action [...]
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Wii really can’t argue with reasons like this

By Jens | Published: November 29, 2007
Fanboys, that scourge of mankind, number 8 on the list of the worst consumer tech trends and blind adherents to corporations that (optimistically) feel about one tenth of the passion for them that they do for their gadgets.  No one wants to argue with them unless they have a fetish for insults. If you can’t resist [...]
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How to understand the Motivation behind Suicide Bombing – with Halo 3

By Jens | Published: November 13, 2007
If you want to put yourself in the position of a suicide bomber look no further than… Halo 3. Clive Thompson over at Wired explains that due him leading a normal life he just doesn’t have the time to improve his skills to keep up with homophobic teenagers around the world. In short: He sucks [...]
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