October 2010
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25 Years of GreatNES With The Nintendo... →
Where would videogames be today if it weren’t for the Nintendo Entertainment System? It’s a question that’s almost impossible to answer, considering the pivotal role that the celebrated 8-bit console had, not just in bringing videogames back into our living rooms after the great game crash of the early 1980’s, but establishing videogames as legitimate part of the cultural iconography.
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Nixing the Tali-ban: EA's Censorship & Why... →
Last week, videogame software giant EA made a puzzling and unsettling announcement: Due to recurring complaints from a vocal minority of friends and relatives of fallen servicemen, the company would be removing any mention of the Taliban from their new game, a reboot of the Medal of Honor franchise that focuses on the war in Afghanistan, by re-naming the terror group simply the “Opposing...
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NYU's Frank Lantz on 'Games After Art' →
Sure, we could continue having the “are games art?” debate from now until doomsday. But NYU’s Frank Lantz has a different take on the role of games — video or otherwise — in our culture as human beings. Rather than drawing parallels in order to artificially place games within familiar contexts we can understand, Frank probes the depths of the human psyche to reveal the unique role that games...