Monday, May 12, 2014

Gaming Round-Up: May 12, 2014

The Last of Us
by Patrick Brown


News: Bungie's Destiny is the Most Expensive Video Game Ever Made

5 Reasons Video Games Lead American Entertainment, which has lead us to develop a Video Game Economy the Size of a Small Country.

At Electro Bureau, Tony Sarkees offers a very personal analysis of Square’s Legend of Mana, particularly a subplot of the game which he believes mirrors his own experience as a gay youth.

Forbes is finally saying what we've all be thinking: We Need A Proper Game of Thrones Video Game and now!  It should include hundreds of hours of exposition, no bonus lives, and be technically impossible to finish with the same character you started with!
If life is a game, then video games also reflect life: Popular art forms affect the way people think about their lives. And video games are the biggest entertainment medium in the world

In his latest Patreon-funded piece, Stephen Beirne has produced a dense, satisfying analysis of worldbuilding in Demons Souls.

On Kill Screen, David Wolinsky wonders why there has been so little discussion of Letters from Incarcerated Gamers, a zine produced by Alejandro Quan-Madrid and Mare Odomo containing the unanswered letters of prison inmates to game magazine. More broadly, Wolinsky explores why incarcerated players are not something we tend to talk about.

PCGamer's ventures into the sneaky, sordid, lucrative arms race of game cheats.


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