Monday, November 25, 2013

Gaming Round-Up: November 25, 2013



Are you Weird if You Play as the Opposite Sex?

At the Monochroma development blog, Burak Tezate?er looks at the expressionism art style and its relationship to video games.

The Border House explores how the relationship between sex and politics is presented in three different games.

Community Vs. Addiction in Interactive Media: Are computer games addictive? Are online games needing regulation and oversight? While the International Consumer Protection and Enforcement Network has debated these issues, the Korean government recently decided to act unilaterally to protect its children from what they perceived as a threat, not waiting for the international community to come to consensus.
If current modding trends continue, Skyrim may literally never get old. Check out Ether Dynamics’s video about AI problems in Skyrim and the mod that solves them.

Nick Dinicola talks about Batman: Arkham Origins using a “pre-hero” state for Batman to give him something he found lacking in the previous two games.

A number of publications are running rose-tinted farewells and reflections on the outgoing generation of consoles. Here’s Kotaku on their favorite characters and boxart from the seventh generation of game consoles. Joystiq also reminisced about the PS3.  Meanwhile, next-gen consoles are turning out to be a big deal, depending on who you’re talking to. A lot of news outlets are running pieces on the rise of mobile gaming.  Right or wrong, some bets are on that we’re entering “The Last Console Generation.” Or not.

Sexism and Video Games aka I didn’t mean to become an angry feminist it just sorta happened

South Park’s latest outing takes shots at the latest generation of Boxes, Black Friday, consumerism, and the preorder numbers for their own game release.

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