Tag: 2009
Exclusive! – Games Journalism and the Race Against Quality
In 1981, the first dedicated video game magazines were launched. In 2009, they continue a pattern of decline that has characterized the last several years…
Editorial: Interactive Discomfort in Modern Warfare 2
WARNING: Spoilers for the“No Russian” mission of Modern Warfare 2 It’s been a week since Modern Warfare 2 dropped into stores like a tomahawk crashing…
Challenging Conventions 2: The Enigma of Brutal Legend, the RTS.
What do you get when you mix real-time strategy, hack-and-slash action, role-playing game-style leveling, and spell casting? The answer is Brütal Legend, a game seemingly…
The Ten Worst Game Spinoffs
While the “Top Ten Best Game Spinoffs” highlighted games that brought something more to an existing game or series, there is the other side of…
Rumor Killers: Phoenix Wright on the Wii, A New Smash TV, and Instruments by Dhani?
Phoenix Wright heading to the Wii? It looks like those pesky age-ratings boards, in their never-ending and legally required quest to slap arbitrary age ratings…
The Press’ Double Standard for Violence in Media
Last week, a now infamous video of controversial Modern Warfare 2 footage was leaked. It showed that it would be possible in a portion of…