AltWeeklies Wire
And Joysticks For Allnew
It's time to queer up video games, but it's not just about sexual orientation. Rebel game designers and academics in the tech industry's backyard are starting a discussion on representation in video games, calling for more women, more people of color, and more than the usual binary gender roles.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Joe Fitzgerald |
10-24-2013 |
Video Games
Colorful Plastic's Answer to 'World of Warcraft' Is the Brainchild of NetDevilnew
Spencer and Braxton Jones have to get off this spaceship. It's teetering on the brink of a black hole. The only way out is via the ship's escape rockets, but there's a catch: The rockets' components are scattered all about the spaceship, in the form of little plastic blocks.
Westword |
Joel Warner |
01-11-2010 |
Video Games
Players Only: A Peek Inside the World of Harmonixnew
Harmonix Music Systems is a Cambridge video-game company behind the Rock Band franchise and Guitar Hero. You may have seen the ad for its upcoming Beatles game -- it was recently playing on 100-foot screens behind Sir Paul at Fenway.
Boston Phoenix |
Matt Parish |
08-19-2009 |
Video Games
'Second Skin' Documentary Brings Audiences Inside Gamers' Virtual Worldsnew
A look at the film that gives audiences a tantalizing glimpse inside the games where 50 million players inhabit virtual lives as their computer-generated alter egos.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Jill Thomas |
08-13-2009 |
Video Games
The Movie-to-Game Transition Is Improvingnew
Ghostbusters and The Chronicles of Riddick prove we've come a long way since E.T.
Fast Forward Weekly |
Blaine Kyllo |
07-09-2009 |
Video Games
Gaming Company Radical Entertainment Bets on Original 'Prototype'new
Many video games are adapted from movies, comic books, and other material, but Prototype, the latest title from game-development studio Radical Entertainment, is based on a completely original concept.
The Georgia Straight |
Blaine Kyllo |
06-22-2009 |
Video Games
Calgary Company Introduces a Quantum Leap in Headphone Designnew
Despite advances in audio technology, the design of the typical headphone speaker hasn't changed much in the past century. Until now, that is.
Fast Forward Weekly |
Blaine Kyllo |
05-07-2009 |
Video Games
The Touching Story of Three Brothers and Their Hermaphroditic Bird-Monsternew
Where most games endlessly crib the best bits of Aliens, Michael Bay films and the U.S. constitution's second amendment, Zeno Clash's art director and writer, Edmundo Bordeu, cites Frank Oz, Terry Gilliam, Hieronymous Bosch and John Blanche as his stylistic influences.
Fast Forward Weekly |
Kyle Francis |
04-02-2009 |
Video Games
My 'Chinatown Wars'
Grand Theft Auto goes handheld on the Nintendo DS.
The Inlander |
Marty Demarest |
03-30-2009 |
Video Games
It's a Mad Mad Mad 'MadWorld'
In MadWorld, reality TV has gone horribly wrong—or reached its logical conclusion.
The Inlander |
Marty Demarest |
03-23-2009 |
Video Games
'Killzone 2': Killing By Rote
Killzone 2 is a technical triumph, but it replaces dynamic combat with a sense of soldiering-on that’s as uninspired as the game’s title.
The Inlander |
Marty Demarest |
03-16-2009 |
Video Games
Fantasy, Firepower and Fretwork for Xmas: A Gift Guide for Gamersnew
It's a great year to be a gamer. I've already written about some of the big games of the fall, including Guitar Hero World Tour, Rock Band 2, Gears of War 2 and Resistance 2. Here are some other great titles to consider gifting to the gamer on your list.
Fast Forward Weekly |
Blaine Kyllo |
12-11-2008 |
Video Games
Casual Video-Game Company Big Fish Catches Record Revenues During Recessionnew
It's no surprise the gift-sales-dependent retail industry is hurting, and the big video-game giants are no exception. But over at Big Fish Games, a Seattle studio that creates casual games involving jewel hunts or word puzzles, things are rosy.
Seattle Weekly |
Laura Onstot |
12-08-2008 |
Video Games
Post-Election Competition Heats Up the Video Game Worldnew
In the gaming world, the election very much continues, as the annual holiday onslaught of games competing for your hearts, votes and dollars is heating up to a level that might make even a CNN hologram -- and Wolf Blitzer, too -- burst into flames.
Orlando Weekly |
Aaron R. Conklin |
12-04-2008 |
Video Games
The Christian Right Embraces Video Gamesnew
The Christian right has figured out that, instead of rallying against video games as morally deficient purveyors of violence and apathy, it's better off embracing them as a medium for spreading the message of God.
NOW Magazine |
Joseph Wilson |
11-17-2008 |
Video Games
