Weekend Soapbox returns after a long hiatus of print deadlines-meeting. Who wishes to take bets on whether another Weekend Soapbox will return next week? No wait, don’t….
Commentaries
Tom Farrer contemplates the face value of entertainment in modern games and the complexities of ingraining experience, emotion, empathy and art into products more and more designed first and foremost as interactive eye candy.
No Need For PC Gaming?
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Just recently, forumite cw8 brought up a recent Gamespot podcast called Hotspot. Next to the usual post-E3 pillow talk, the podcast speakers quipped about PC gaming and how it’s being downplayed. Needless to say, this got cw8 and a bunch of other PC connoisseurs in a huff. Personally, I would too, but let’s take this step by step, shall we?
Is gaming becoming too easy? Has the prominence of casual gaming forced developers to replace quality and skill in games for simplistic mechanics, repetitive gameplay and quick gratification…or is it all just business?
Don Ye Now In Gay Apparel..
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It’s quite a common occurrence for men to be masquerading as the opposite sex and vice versa in their online personas be it for the fun of it or otherwise, but how about topics of homosexuality? The online world may not be as liberal as you’d like to think behind its anonymity.
Digital Entertainment is the new buzzword. It encompasses everything we do online from the actual piece of entertainment itself to the platforms behind that power them. But, it is the other emerging trend of community services that will truly set the world stage.
I’m a professional RTS player (in hiatus) turned Product Evangelist at Razer. I play competitive RTS such as Dawn of War and World in Conflict in tournaments such as WCG and CPL. I also play other games (albeit not professionally) like Counter-Strike, Defense of the Ancients, WoW (and currently act as the lead guitarist for [...]
For The Hoard
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Moving is always a bitch; the chaos of packing, the chore of unpacking, the inevitable search for some lost item for weeks to come, only to give up and find it again five years later when you no longer care. But most amazing of all is the amount of ‘Valuables’ found during the course of [...]
Have Casual Will Play
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Here’s a look at the Nintendo strategy around casual gaming. The hardcore scoff at the ‘weaknesses’ of the Wii and DS, but that laughter you hear in the background? That’s Nintendo going to the bank.
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Weekend Soapbox: Bewitched By Bayonetta
Bayonetta: is she more than just an exploitative sex symbol, or is she a case of “what you see is what you get”? Mr. Toffee doesn’t think so, as he believes that she’s saving the face of female videogame characters everywhere with her antics.
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