Ah, fucking memories. That track, and then this:

I have almost 400 hours logged on X3: Terran Conflict—and while most of those are just idleness with the SETA kicked on while my cargo ships traded across the universe so I could bankroll suicidal onslaughts of Xenon sectors with a fleet of frigates and capital ships—I would have to say I'm quite excited for this;…

I'm not sure how long they've been doing it—and perhaps I've just missed it on the Moneysaver—but GMG is offering instant store credits or cash on pre-orders. For Battlefield 4 the store credit is $12, bringing the price to $48. FFXIV ARR has a $5 store credit bringing it to $25. And there are plenty more it seems.

I still remember the day I installed Steam. I had taken a several year hiatus from PC gaming and I had decided to reinvest after my mother upgraded to broadband. I was reinstalling Day of Defeat from disc and I was extremely agitated that I couldn't find any servers to play on. "O woe! Has the world abandoned Day of…

After yesterday's article on Suikoden Day, I start mentally tabulating all the reasons why I love the first two games. And while I'm not going to recapitulate them here in there entirety there is one thing that I think is often overlooked. Suikoden I and II can both be played with only one hand. And I don't mean some…

This is all well and good, but I recall the mechanics in the first game being rather stiff. Shooting never felt particularly good, and other things felt, I don't know, funny. I didn't spend a lot of time with it for those reasons, but perhaps I was impatient. How does this iteration compare?

I would have to say that Suikoden is by far the most consistently good RPG series. While I avoided IV, and I found V slightly tedious—I remember it taking about 15 hours for me to get the main character's true rune!—I through III really are something special, with II being the clear highlight of the series, as so many…

I've been considering building my own gaming rig lately—something that will require a bit of investment on my part, having only ever upgraded RAM and a video card before. But I see that Shell Shocker deal on Newegg, and I'm quite tempted.

But again, your last paragraph says it all. The question of "value," as in: Wow, some guy used a computer to separate the frames on top gun and make it into a lovely splodge," is still up for debate. Not lingering on the fact that you called the splodge "lovely," process is still very much informing your level of…

The real issue here is the line: "can we stop giving money to these tits?" You're conceiving of artistic practice only as industry, and art object only as commodity. In that sense art only becomes something you: can't do, can't buy, or can't own. The limitation of beauty and/or cultural worth to a monetary value (as…

Are there any solid zombie mods for GTA IV? Even just something where pedestrians chase you and try and beat you with their fists? Because the playground that is Liberty City just seems ripe for such a thing, and it really seems like a missed opportunity if there isn't. Driving around with wreckage and debris covering…

And I think that is correct. It is a country, not a region, so it does not require the definite article. I think saying "the Ukraine" is actually a sort of popular bastardization that came into our vocabulary via popular culture. If you think back to portrayals of eastern European characters in U.S. films—who are…

I was replaying Journey a little while ago when my roommate walked into the room and asked what I was doing—she being an individual who is interested in a variety of speculative media forms: science fiction, etc.—and I explained to her a little about the game, etc. And then my mind made a funny little association…

I was always quite surprised by Ebert's stance on the video game as a valid and important medium—especially when one makes it an analog with the infancy of cinema and its own struggles—, and I believe that with a little more time he would have been able to see it as many of us do. However, regardless of that…

Well, Mr. Observant, it actually was a "C4 rigged dirtbike." That was what propelled him off the jump. Not a glitch. . .not really that is.

I suppose my issue with this is that it doesn't quite go far enough. If you're going to adapt a text (think piece of media) for a new audience, it seems a rather delusional effort simply to invert one trope to replace it with another. The dependent/objectifying relationship is still present in the text; the hierarchy…

I believe it is simply that the universe of Morrowind feels so distinctly alien not only in relation to the recent entries, but to any fantasy setting. The Nervarine [sic] prophecy and the period which sustains it are not only interesting but truly engaging—even though, as you said, you may make progress in a quest…

Completely agree. I saw that analogy and was slightly horrified. To think that someone would take that moment—a brief respite from senseless atrocity—and parallel it with a "moment of silence" in the gaming world says a good deal about the potential repercussions of this event. Anyone who views those two things as…

I identify with this sentiment greatly, more so when it comes to other mediums—literature and film mainly. And what the author appears to long for is a more generative system for game design. I suggest looking into the work of Christopher Novello, a young electronic writer. His "codebending," and Illucia device are…