Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Are old games still relevant?
The release of Wolfenstein 3D as a browser-based game 20 years after initial release draws into sharp focus the fact that games have, well, changed a bit. But do you have to play it to enjoy Call of Duty?
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Ten things I hate about games #1: Blank Protagonists
Gaming is a strange new medium, still, and as an industry it’s still finding its feet – we’ve only been going for around 35 years, give or take. We’re still working out how characterisation works. Often, it doesn’t.
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Bad Old Games: Episode One
A Podcast!
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Top 5 stupid things Prophet says in Crysis 3
SHUT UP, PROPHET. THE ALIENS WILL HEAR YOU.
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Medal of Honour: Warfighter lets you open your own doors
That’s pretty much all they’ve changed, from what I can tell.
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Elves in Shoreditch: The Live-action Witcher 2 experience
On Tuesday, I stabbed a rogue magician in the back and left him bleeding out on a roof, all in aid of The Witcher 2’s release on Xbox 360. Is that, y’know, a good thing?
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The Kitacon NERF “Panel”
We helped twenty con-goers build a NERF game out of nothing, and then sat back and watched as they shot the hell out of each other.
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Drunken Bear Fighter: An RPG I wrote
I fear nothing else I do will have the impact on the world that Drunken Bear Fighter has.
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Hydrophobia – A retrospective
I wrote this a full year ago, almost to the day; a month into my job, I’d been asked up to Manchester by Dark Energy Digital, creators of much-maligned game Hydrophobia.
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