Category: games
If you’re looking for my samples folder, it’s here.
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E3 2010's Finest Trailer
This is a new music-shooter from the chap who made Rez, Tetsuya Mizuguchi – it’s operated through Microsoft’s new Kinect motion-detection system and is meant to convey the sound-colour linkage of synesthesia. Sadly, as it’s colour-oriented, I’m aware that I’m probably never going to be able to enjoy this, in the way I couldn’t enjoy…
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Solving MMO review problems
To the tune of: Nina Nastasia – Our Discussion As an MMO reviewer, I’ve felt both privileged (at occupying a niche few are equipped to explore) and also terrified (at a reviewer’s complete inability to perceive the whole game). As Quintin Smith found last week, and Ed Zitron found previously, reviewers, no matter how professional, can’t…
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That Mordin Moment: The Unusual Case of the Singing Salarian
To the tune of: The Element’s Song by Tom Lehrer It’s 2010 and my jaw is hanging like it’s been wired open. I can’t believe what I’m watching on screen. The wise-talking pensive scientist / special operative who’s been fighting robots and aliens and stuff at my side, is… singing. And, in the deep darkness…
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Red Write Hand
To the tune of Red Right Hand by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds I gone and done wrote something, hic: I’m Big Daddy Delta, terror of Rapture, splitter of splicers, defender of the weak, diving suit fetishist extraordinaire. I’m stuck on one side of a door, there’s a broken window and a yellow glowing…
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Added Extras
(This is a response to Rob Fahey’s Special Editions piece on Gamesindustry.biz) To the tune of: Yo, Ho – Disney There are three things that are going to keep gamers buying games rather than pirating them. Those are community play (achievements, online play, friend lists, chat, etc), fear (in my opinion, generally inducing negative emotions…
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