Monday, August 18, 2014

Gaming Round-Up: August 18, 2014

you’re clear to dock, normandy.

Mass Effect 3 Fan Art.


News: Robin Williams, An Avid Gamer, To Be Remembered In World Of Warcraft

According to Noah Nelson of NPR, Virtual Reality's Next Hurdle will be Overcoming 'Sim Sickness' Some people experience a kind of motion sickness, known as "sim sickness," when they use head-mounted virtual reality displays like the Oculus Rift or Sony's Project Morpheus prototype. And even virtual reality game makers aren't immune at first.

Brendan Keogh has been looking at the first Modern Warfare title, showing us how the old blockbuster is more interesting than it seems on first glance.

Can 'World of Warcraft' Game Skills Help Land a Job? asks the WallStreet Journal. Some Job Seekers Add Experiences on Role-Playing Platform to Résumés, LinkedIn.  Forbes has a slightly different take on the issue.


Claire Hosking, negotiating the pull between the procedural narrative and the “authored” artistic work, looks at the urban structures of Transistor and the narratives of those structures and aesthetics.

At The Digital Antiquarian, Jimmy Maher has a historical look at Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?; the cultural and material contexts that brought it to life, and its lasting impact in mainstream videogames.

Kill Screen's Lindsey Joyce examines how Wayward Manor fits into Neil Gaiman’s oeuvre or, more to the point, how it doesn't.


The Medium's Zoya Street waxes nostalgic about the Nokia 3210 phone and the low-res no-colour games that came with it.


Variety takes a look back at Robin Williams and His Longtime Love of Videogames

The Virtual Narrative blog has a post about the metanarratives of the Civilization games.


Why Are Women Getting Raped in Video Games?


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