Monday, March 10, 2014

Gaming Round-Up: March 10, 2014

Tomb Raider - Definitive Edition by PatrickBrown


News: Amid questions about Nintendo’s interest in staying in the hardware game, president Satoru Iwata affirmed the company’s continuing commitment to console hardware in a shareholders letter.

Ben Kuchera’s opinion piece on Gender Swap, a two-person VR simulation in which players inhabit one another’s body, has been drawing a enormous response over the course of the week, beginning with Jessica Janiuk.  Rose & Time developer Sophie Houlden outlines where she thinks Gender Swap falls short (part 2).  Redshirt developer Mitu Khandaker-Kokoris criticizes the system for proposing easy solutions to complicated social issues.

Confessions Of A Final Fantasy Addict

Games are not shoes, admonishes Chris Bateman, arguing that Steam’s recent change to allow devs to set their own prices will not result in some catastrophic zero-sum game.

Manhattancraft: The quest to make a full-size city of Minecraft blocks. A server cluster, Python, and a sandbox game come together to rebuild New York.

News has broken that "The Last of Us" is coming to the big screen with Sam Raimi at the helm. 
Reactions to the news has generally been very positive, with some fans even predicting that The Last of Us could be the first great video game movie (it's not like there's a lot of competition), but some people are already asking Is Sony's 'The Last of Us' Movie A Good Idea?   Aside from a host of smaller concerns,    However, Joel Actor Troy Baker reassured fans that he's sure the movie will be well-handled.

On Gamers with Jobs, Alex Martinez shares a personal story of two formative experiences from his childhood — namely, the video game rental store in his neighborhood, and the LA Riots which ravaged it in 1992.

At Polyneux, Mayaku talks about deserted servers in World of Warcraft.

Valentina Hirsch discusses feeling ownership over games as medium.


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