by Vijayendra Mohanty I have long held the belief that if you intend to best the Japanese in graphic storytelling, you might as well give up. They have an amazing range of homemade techniques to fall back on. The silence, the movement, the sword-slashing, and a mood that flits between, deathly serious to goofy to [...]
by Krish Raghav When Adam Cadre’s Photopia won first place at the 1998 Interactive Fiction competition, it started an (intense) debate about what really draws the line between an interactive video game and a work of fiction. Photopia unceremoniously dumped the idea of a ‘puzzle-based’ narrative. Instead, it chose a ‘story-based’ narrative, a linear progression [...]
by ess-cee Think Patapon, and the immediate mental jump is to LocoRoco – the visual style, the adorably cute characters and the gleeful singing and shouting as the tumble about happily… Beyond that though, Patapon is nothing like LocoRoco, though that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Patapon is really a lot of different genres meshed [...]
by gSathe One of the big issues that knocked about every now and then is the “mature” content in video games these days. Even now, to many non-gamers, particularly here in India, the image of video games still remains Mario jumping around in a world made up of smiley faces and bright primary colours. So [...]
by gSathe The state of gaming has undergone a major change over the last five years, and the single player component has dwindled greatly in importance over time. This is nowhere more true than in action games, and while some, like Call of Duty still provide a strong and polished single player campaign, for most [...]
by gSathe One of the commonest rants I’ve seen of late is that games just aren’t what they used to be. That the golden age of gaming is behind us, that there is now so much focus on the polygon count and the framerate that the game itself is forgotten. If you spend a little [...]
Okay, so a couple of days back I read that Manhunt 2 is finally being released in the UK. Which means that the ten people who hadn’t already got the game through other means can now go and buy it from the stores over there. Everyone else who wanted the game, either because of the [...]
by gSathe The first thing to do, we’ve got to stop calling it piracy. Piracy sounds cool, piracy is Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom and Kiera Knightley. Piracy sounds sexy. So let’s just call it what it is – stealing. Don’t get me wrong. We’ve all bought pirated discs, we’ve played games and watched movies [...]
by ess-see My name is Sunaina. If that isn’t enough of a tip off, then let me add that I’m a girl. Actually I suppose that woman is the right word by now, since I’m 26. But I haven’t started using that word for anyone else I know yet, so I’ll be damned if I [...]
by PSaditya The PC gaming scene is largely dominated by a bevy of first-person-shooters, Realtime strategy, and Sims games. So when a game comes along that has absolutely none of these elements, one needs to stop and take a look at it. AudioSurf is just that sort of game. It combines elements from racing games, [...]
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