"Star Power" by Joshua Ketchen
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American Lawmakers Attack Violent Video Game Developers: The Washington Examiner reports that the GOP tax plan singles out violent video game makers on the upcoming tax reform bill. How they do this is by removing the proposed research and development tax break. As reported by Colin Moriarty of IGN, this came about through the Ways & Means Committee which is controlled by the majority of the House of Representative, being the GOP or Republican Party. The Washington Examiner also has the story. The R&D tax benefit allows companies to successfully conduct research and development to further their businesses. This includes access to customer bases for marketing purposes, access to talent and (key to the games industry) stable information technology infrastructure. This bill would exclude companies who make violent games from access to these credits, preventing developers from even qualifying for them. However, at this stage, it is not fully known what would constitute as “violent."
Here's a very readable “Microhistory of Eve Online.” Tracey Lien writes a much more comprehensive and lengthy article on the same game, taking us for an oral and systemic historical analysis of EVE in “The Most Thrilling and Boring Game in the Universe.”
A History Of Video Game Consoles, In Commercials
How smartphones killed video games
Jeremy Parish recounts “7 Reasons Super Metroid Was A SNES Masterpiece.”
Over at The Atlantic, Jagger Gravning is celebrating How Video Games Are Slowly, Quietly Introducing LGBT Heroes. "By leaving protagonists' preferences open to interpretation, video games like Assassin’s Creed and Tomb Raider have been including characters not defined by gender or sexuality." But, over at Motherboard, Yannick LeJacq feels that The Game Industry Plans To Keep Gay Characters On The Sidelines and is portraying what scant headway the LGBT cause has made as a Fight to Get Gay in Video Games. Far Cry 3 writer Lucien Soulban agrees that the LGBT community is under-represented in games and attempts to explain the situation in this interview by Polygon's Emily Gera: Video games won't feature gay protagonists 'for a while.'
Video games are art – and it's time they got their own Oscars. Games like The Last of Us are strong enough to merit Academy Awards, argues Nick Robinson of The Week. The Edmonton Sun agrees, Video games deserve Oscars too.
While Congress is considering the dangers of video games, Mytheos Holt argues that Internet Comments Sections Are More Dangerous Than Video Games.
American Lawmakers Attack Violent Video Game Developers: The Washington Examiner reports that the GOP tax plan singles out violent video game makers on the upcoming tax reform bill. How they do this is by removing the proposed research and development tax break. As reported by Colin Moriarty of IGN, this came about through the Ways & Means Committee which is controlled by the majority of the House of Representative, being the GOP or Republican Party. The Washington Examiner also has the story. The R&D tax benefit allows companies to successfully conduct research and development to further their businesses. This includes access to customer bases for marketing purposes, access to talent and (key to the games industry) stable information technology infrastructure. This bill would exclude companies who make violent games from access to these credits, preventing developers from even qualifying for them. However, at this stage, it is not fully known what would constitute as “violent."
Here's a very readable “Microhistory of Eve Online.” Tracey Lien writes a much more comprehensive and lengthy article on the same game, taking us for an oral and systemic historical analysis of EVE in “The Most Thrilling and Boring Game in the Universe.”
A History Of Video Game Consoles, In Commercials
How smartphones killed video games
Jeremy Parish recounts “7 Reasons Super Metroid Was A SNES Masterpiece.”
Over at The Atlantic, Jagger Gravning is celebrating How Video Games Are Slowly, Quietly Introducing LGBT Heroes. "By leaving protagonists' preferences open to interpretation, video games like Assassin’s Creed and Tomb Raider have been including characters not defined by gender or sexuality." But, over at Motherboard, Yannick LeJacq feels that The Game Industry Plans To Keep Gay Characters On The Sidelines and is portraying what scant headway the LGBT cause has made as a Fight to Get Gay in Video Games. Far Cry 3 writer Lucien Soulban agrees that the LGBT community is under-represented in games and attempts to explain the situation in this interview by Polygon's Emily Gera: Video games won't feature gay protagonists 'for a while.'
Video games are art – and it's time they got their own Oscars. Games like The Last of Us are strong enough to merit Academy Awards, argues Nick Robinson of The Week. The Edmonton Sun agrees, Video games deserve Oscars too.
While Congress is considering the dangers of video games, Mytheos Holt argues that Internet Comments Sections Are More Dangerous Than Video Games.
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