Morality in video games
How do you quantify good and evil? In most games that have a "morality" system built into them, this is based on points leading to either good or evil based on conversations and read more...
Weapons in shooting games
When it comes to shooters, weapon design is usually considered a very important feature. However, they are generally only rated on what they look like and how original they are. But I do read more...
Bosses & Fun
Bosses . Almost every game has them; from Sonic to Super Smash Brothers , Jet Force Gemini to Earthworm Jim . Ever since the dawn of gaming, it appears that these overpowered enemies have read more...
Pirates!
As consoles pump out higher fidelity graphics and offer cohesive online communities, plenty of folks see it as a funeral precession for PC gaming. Regardless of the vast opportunities and advantages read more...
Video Game Violence
This is a report I wrote for my freshman year language arts class in highschool, tell me what you think guys.
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Indie Gaming
(Its alternative - Mel) I am no pioneer of pop culture, I was not one of the originals and I was not the last of the blood and sweat brigade. I'm not one of those fellows who played miniature read more...
Sanity: Not for me, thanks.
Lately, I've been getting more and more fed up. Not with difficulty curves so large it seems as if you've run down a hill only to run head-first into a wall made out of diamond. I'm not fed up with read more...
Its Coming...
I have received word that there is a new up-and-coming way to play games. This is only available to the money friendly people though. It is a system that actually puts you totally read more...
The death of the PC?
Back in the early nineties, a revolution of videogames began on the Personal Computer. Wolfenstein3D and Doom shot out the First Person Shooters (FPS). Command and Conquer and read more...
Droughts and Drizzles
Year after year, for as long as I can remember, we video game buying people have gone through the same floods and droughts of releases. Like turning gears in some eternal Swiss clock, each season read more...
I should be charging admission to my living room!
What did movies start as? Short, almost pointless means of entertainment that were being produced simply because the technology to do so had become readily available. And what did video games start read more...
Shock Treatment
Very few games nowadays do horror effectively. There are many typical routes that writers take to induce a scary experience. To name a few of the better examples, try looking at the two major read more...