Monday, January 5, 2015

Gaming Round-Up: January 5, 2015

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Best Video Games of 2014: AP | BGR | Cult of Mac | Daily News | Entertainment Monthly | EW | Forbes | GamingBolt: Co-Op, Graphic, Indie, Underrated  | Horror-Movies | Liberty Voice: 2, 3, 4 | MTV | Phys.org | Tor.com | Washington Times | Yahoo! Tech

News: EVE Online player loses ship with $1,500 of real world value.  Ouch

News: Kid called 911 over the PSN outage

In 2007, Ross Scott began a new video series, Freeman's Mind. "Basically the premise is that in the Half-Life series, the protagonist Gordon Freeman is entirely silent the whole time. So what this series aims to do is fill in the silence with his thoughts." Seven years and 68 episodes later, the project is complete.  Here's an easy to follow chronolgy of the videos.

Are you a game developer who’s trying to hire an artist for your next project? According to Gamasutra‘s Zachary Strebeck, here are some of the things you should keep in mind.

At Readwrite, Zack Kotzer calls 2014 The Year Video Games Got Funny Again.

The Boston Globe summarizes five takeaways from the year in gaming

Business Insider tries to understand Why 32 Million People Are Obsessed With PewDiePie — The Biggest Star On YouTube.

CraveOnline's Paul Tamburro considers whether it was Sony, Microsoft or Nintendo who provided the best home console experience this year?

Daniel Cook points out the top 5 game design debates I ignored in 2014

To highlight the vulnerabilities of an unsecured web interface in Canon Pixma printers that allows the uploading of arbitrary binaries as firmware, information security consultant Michael Jordan has made a printer run Doom (video) as part of a presentation at 44Con 2014.  In a similar vein, here's a report on how to play Quake on an oscilloscope.

How Major Video Games Subverted Cultural Taboos Without Anyone Noticing

The Internet Archive has added nearly 2,400–currently 2,388 to be exact–MS-DOS video games to their Software Library for browser-based play. The Software Library also includes a slightly larger collection of general MS-DOS programsJason Scott, the man behind the lion’s share of work on these projects, has written up a lengthy post about the whole ordeal and what’s coming next.

Kotaku remembers 9 Video Games That Left Us Defenseless and Scared

Massively looks ahead to Ten new MMOs to watch in 2015.

Sin Vega considers the virtue of breaking the fourth wall in video games, specifically citing Consortium as an example.

This Year in Videogame Blogging: 2014. Critical Distance provides a roundup of some of the best articles about games this year.

Why a Devout Game Collector Is Selling $164K Worth of Retro Games

Wired's Chris Kohler looks ahead to 25 highly-anticipated video games of 2015.


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