by Ravi Sinha
Falling home values, crashing stock markets, nationalisation of corporate foundations… If you didn’t open an Atlas Shrugged and know better (not necessarily in the same order), you’d swear the current world scenario is beginning to mirror her predictions. Revenues are short. All notable currencies are losing value. The costs of war have finally [...]
by Nike Okami
Most of us think of the drop-dead gorgeous art direction of an Ico or Shadow of the Colossus and we immediately remember a masterpiece of visual proportions being played out on the screen. Original soundtracks for games have also surpassed the usual 16-bit arrangements of yore, as anyone who listens to the beats [...]
by Nike Okami
In our first part, we talked about the meaning of guilt in gaming; how gamers want to gain an objective feeling from a non-objective reality (or, real feelings, such as guilt and sadness from a fictional world). This time, we’ll talk about an interesting topic. Rather, we’re going to confront a topic and [...]
by Nike Okami
Will Wright (co-founder of Maxis, which is now a part of Electronic Arts) has been feeling the pain lately, but it’s not over the recent Chinese earthquake or the World Food Crisis. The sultan of Sim has lived through the ultimate Grand Theft Auto experience — that of butchering an innocent in cold [...]
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