Monday, July 21, 2014

Gaming Round-Up: July 21, 2014


"Game Over" by Corey Courts for TeeVillain


Interview: Here’s a conversation with Larian CEO Swen Vincke about the richly deserved success of Divinity: Original Sin, and the long incubation of its many ideas.

News:  Manuel Noriega, Panama’s former dictator, is pulling a Lindsay Lohan by suing Activision for his depiction in Call of Duty: Black Ops.  Watch the hilariously bad coverage of the story from MSNBC.

Adafruit demonstrates how to build your own "Gamegirl" with a 3D-printed case, Raspberry Pi computer, and various electronic bits.  I'm hoping to see more designers come forward and contribute to this project.  The possibilities of an open sources Game Boy could be awesome.


"How to play Street Fighter: a fighting game primer for everyone" explains the dynamics of how 2D fighting games work and why.

Is everyone’s favorite turian, Garrus Vakarian, making a cameo appearance in the upcoming season of Doctor Who? Likely not explicitly, but word has it Steven Moffat and Matt Smith are Mass Effect fans...

Kill Screen’s Joshua Calixto takes a look into the community which has emerged around Super Smash Bros Melee fighting game (one of my all time favorites) and Nintendo’s resistance to acknowledging these hardcore players.

Killing of a Goldfish has set out on an ambitious historical game criticism project oriented around Magic the Gathering, viewing its early expansion sets in the context of their release.

Paste's Ian Williams declares that The Moment of the MMO Has Passed. Maybe he didn't see the story about how Star Wars: The Old Republic Generated $165 Million Last Year, and Warcraft still came out on top.  If MMORPGs are dead, nobody's told consumers, yet.

PopMatters analyzes how The Wolf Among Us keeps its sympathies with the marginalized and victimized throughout its five-part arc.  Meanwhile, Eric Swain reflects upon values and the Meaning of Moral Behavior in Video Games.

Topless Robot's Jason Helton has a stirring piece on 9 Things I Learned About Gaming With Disabilities from the Ablegamers Foundation and My Son. 

YouTube games media loses its shine: After thriving on being outside the “corrupt” commercial games media, this week's revelations have been embarrassing for many YouTubers.


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