I’m all for conflict in my video games; that’s been pretty well established. I’m also on the record with war games, games and real world guns, and censoring violence. With all that I’ve said before, this article on Eurogamer brings up a point that I had not really thought of before. To use Simon Parkin’s own [...]
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What Portal can teach us about teaching
Madeline is currently a history and library science student at the University of Maryland, College Park; was formerly a sixth-grade teacher in California, and has always been a proud and nerdy Seattleite/Oregonian. Portal, the popular FPS/puzzle game that has been the source of too many meme phrases since 2007, has a more serious side than [...]
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eSports Need to Grow Up
Leodar and I had a good conversation over twitter the other day. The tl;dr of it was that we both felt the eSports community is seriously lacking in both maturity and role models. Leodar thought the role models could be fixed pretty easily, but the problem right now is twofold in my mind: lack of [...]
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Taking Aim at the Issue: Real World Guns and Games
This article is a bit of a rebuttal to a Medium Difficulty article. While I agree with that article, and it hits many good points (especially the history of the arms industry and its relation to politics), it does not give a way to actually change or help the system, and also does not give [...]
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Violence vs. Conflict in Video Games
I don’t really enjoy violent video games. Or games that are gorey. I don’t want games that just shoot and kill people. That being said, I love me some L4D. It’s gorey and violent. A hack and slash FPS with plenty of guns and killing. Did I just contradict myself? I don’t think so. I like L4D [...]
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FPS Games: Play Them on the PC
I generally try and stay neutral and present facts as I see them during my posts. Or I try to present an opinion with supporting evidence, and then give some examples of why I’m right. We also spend a lot of time on this blog talking about MMO gaming. Today is not that day. Today [...]
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Health Benefits of Video Games
I’ve talked before about the negative side of video games: addiction and violence. I want to lighten it up a bit and talk about why video games are great and amazing. (Spoiler alert: yeah, they really can be good for ya) I’m going to start this off with a link to an article from Cracked, [...]
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“Must be nice playing games all day?!”
Todd has worked in the games industry for quite a long time, starting as a Beta Tester waaay back in the olden days of 1996. He then moved on to Silicon Knights where he was a Designer and a Lead Designer working on projects such as Eternal Darkness, Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes, and early production of [...]
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