On this week’s Rock, Paper, Shotgun podcast, a reader writes in with the question “I don’t like Civilization IV. What’s wrong with me?” (26:12 point.) And, as is typical of my British colleagues, they never quite get around to answering that question. John Walker respects the greatness of the design, but never got into the [...]
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The Internet is Crazy
December 11th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Gamers
No one can apologize like Tom Chick. Swarmed by moronic comments after posting his lists of disappointing, overrated and top games for 2008, he feels the need to politely explain himself. In short, overrated is not the same as bad. He liked GTA IV, for example, but thought it was overrated. I doubt anyone could [...]
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I Hate Gamers: Part XX
June 2nd, 2008 · 2 Comments · Blogs, Gamers
MTV’s Steven Totilo has been posting a series of short bits about how game reviewers do their job. So it’s only natural that he would jump into the ongoing drama about Konami’s list of things that they did not want reviewers to talk about. EGM apparently decided not to give the game a score at [...]
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A Matter of Literacy?
May 6th, 2008 · 13 Comments · Gamers, Industry, Me
This will probably be my only post about Grand Theft Auto IV, a game which has been dubbed not only “great”, but “important” by a number of very savvy critics. Seth Schiesel’s review in the New York Times epitomizes the form, being (as usual) well written enough to persuade my wife that GTA4 is something [...]
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RTS Pro-Tips
April 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Gamers, RTS
Regular reader and commenter Natus has pointed me to RTS Professional, a site dedicated to teaching people how to improve their RTS game. The video player isn’t very clear, but the voice over narration helps a little. It’s a good idea to have this sort of thing in one place. They have a “fundamentals” audio [...]
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The Expectation Game
June 8th, 2007 · 6 Comments · Gamers
If you don’t read Kieron Gillen’s blog, you should. Though he’s branched out into comics and music, he’s still one of the best writers in the business. He’s more than Mr. New Games Journalism. Anyway, he has an essay up today about “fans” of what he calls the Immersive Sim. (There has to be a [...]
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