Modern Warfare 2, controversy and all, will soon descend on the world of video gaming, and Wal-Mart has decided to let the marketing rumpus start. Thanks so much Spike Jonze for bringing back the word ‘rumpus.’ Anyway, the Wal-Mart ads feature two rival gamers trying to one-up each other in a battle of verbal jabs. [...]
Some footage for Modern Warfare 2 recently hit the Internet and caused a tempest of contrasting opinions among the world’s gamers. Those of you who are planning to play the shooter without any advance knowledge would do well to avoid both this post and the articles to which it provides links. The basics, though, can [...]
The gaming community has been in an uproar recently about Infinity Ward’s decision to drop dedicated PC servers from the upcoming Modern Warfare 2. The developer’s decision has re-ignited the debate between console gamers and PC gamers and prompted many in the latter category to stand up for their chosen platform. The debate over this [...]
My, my, if the blogopshere isn’t alive with critics these days! All over the place, gamers are questioning long-held beliefs and calling out inane or dated traditions in the medium. With all this healthy debate, I daresay our industry must be in the middle of a virtual Renaissance!
All right, now that the flowery language is [...]
I think Nazis, as an American cultural symbol, tend to fluctuate in and out of popularity. Right now, Nazis are big. Think about it–Inglorious Basterds. Valkyrie. And of course, there’s that awkward-yet-hilarious meme in which humorists subtitle Hitler’s rants with pop-culture references and redirected fury. So it doesn’t surprise me that, in this cultural climate, [...]
Congratulations, Ology nation–you made it through Monday. You managed to get to class, slog through work, and checked off every tiny square on your To-Do List. Now’s your chance to fire up your favorite console and enjoy some meaningless fun, right?
Not quite. You may be getting more than you bargained for–namely, a spiritually significant experience [...]
Let’s face it: video game celebs just don’t get the kind of fame and recognition that other pop culture luminaries do. Although they put their time and energy into creating interactive entertainment for all of us hungry gamers, they don’t often get public props. Still, the people behind video gaming are generally a creative, intelligent [...]
OK, so maybe the Ivy League hasn’t unilaterally endorsed interactive entertainment. And I doubt Gordon Freeman will be getting an honorary degree any time soon (although I bet NYU’s Gallatin school would gladly grant him a certificate in Crowbar Studies.) But we can all celebrate a recent step forward, helped along by Harvard’s Professor Edward [...]
If you’re a frothing mad Call of Duty fan, you probably aren’t reading this and are already tearing through what I’m about to say, but for future generations that find a print out of this website in a time capsule: today, Call of Duty: World At War Map Pack 2 is now for sale for [...]
Come on, you know it’s true: every silverhaired white dude on TV that doesn’t understand video games and new technology fully believes that eventually we will be wandering around controlling other people with VR helmets because our insatiable thirst for destruction and death can no longer be sated by the pixelated recreations of such activities.
If [...]
