Got the strangest comment today, and although I’m remiss to give anyone free advertising, ARGs are technically games, and this is a game design site, so I figured I’d bite and throw this out there for folks to chew on.
The comment in question was posted by one “Gashel,” who uses the email addy gashelandjoan@rocketmail.com. [...]

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I finally got off my rear and went with a friend to go see the new Speed Racer movie last night, and I’m really glad I did. Not only am I a humongous Speed Racer fan from back when it originally aired on TV here in the states, I’m a fan of the Wachowskis [...]

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Awhile back Clint Hocking wrote a pretty kickass piece critiquing Bioshock’s Ludonarrative Dissonance. For a long time I wasn’t sure what the hell he was getting at with the word “Ludonarrative,” and after I just recently did an interview for a gaming journalism student, I learned that he had combined the terms “Ludology” and [...]

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So rumors are being thrown about that there’s going to be some sort of prequel to Halo, now that Bungie’s split from Microsoft.
It doesn’t seem entirely out of the realm of possibility, if you consider that Halo is probably the prequel to Marathon (Bungie’s previous sci-fi trilogy). This old article did a decent enough [...]

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News comes to us today that Motley Crue will be the lucky first band to debut their newest album content in Rock Band before it even hits store shelves with word that their first track, Saints, will be playable as DLC content this week.
While I find the choice of band and song to be entirely [...]

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If you’re into passing your genes on, or know someone who is, and want to show off the geek cred of said genes, then I don’t think there’s any cooler gear for them to be wearing than this onesie someone just pointed out to me.
Requesting one with “n00b,” please.

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The site is getting slammed presently due to the Portal piece generating more traffic than my server has connections to serve. I’ve looked into upgrading the account, but it’s not a bandwidth thing, it’s a connections issue. Game-ism is pretty much suffering from a live unintentional DoS attack.
I doubt it’s going to improve [...]

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Not exactly conclusive scientific evidence, but Fake Plastic Rock finds proof that Rock Band can teach you to play the drums. Kevin from G4’s Attack of the show actually substitutes on drums for Coheed and Cambria. Like, the real band.

Now if only I could show you legally how WWIIOnline taught me how to [...]

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Every 3 months or so, Pottery Barn Kids releases a new catalog, showing off their poorly made and horribly overpriced wares for all of suburbia to drool over. And every 3 months, I typically see yet another pathetic attempt to grasp at the “gaming” zeitgeist by a bunch of ad/catalog people who evidently know [...]

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Okay, so the Daily Mail’s review of violent video games might be the most laughable tripe that side of the pond, but oh sweet zombie jebus, their photoshop skills are worse. They ran this image of Anne Diamond, their “expert” on violent video games (can you hear my eyes rolling?), which on the surface [...]

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