Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Gaming Round-Up: December 11, 2013



10 Games That are Worth Being Upgraded to Next-Gen Consoles

Carli Velocci has an interesting piece about narrator gendering in Portal and The Stanley Parable, taking a slightly broader approach to Cara Ellison’s previous piece about engendered AI for Unwinnable.

Despite a customer base that crosses many demographics, a large part of the video game industry has remained resolutely focused on appealing and marketing to male players in the 18-24 age group. It wasn't always this way. Although early coin-op and console game development was male-dominated, titles in the 1970s were either marketed for entire families or for adults in bars and later arcades. What changed? Over at Polygon, Tracey Lien examines why games aren’t marketed at girls.


How To Justify Splurging on an Xbox One (With an Xbox 360 Already a Home)

Jim Rossignol is of the opinion that games are best when things go wrong.

Jordan Shapiro argues The Future Of Video Games is the Future Of Storytelling

 Let's mod Skyrim so that the dragon is Thomas the Tank Engine!

At videogametourism, Rainer Sigl talks about stylization vs. photorealism, originally written for local newspaper Der Standard.

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