Monday, October 13, 2014

Gaming Round-Up: October 13, 2014


"Conquer Yourself" by Sweden-based Max (Brakkenimation)
Prints available for purchase from Society6. US$18.72


News: Super Smash Bros. for the Wii U finally has a launch date. Fans will be able to play one of Nintendo’s most-anticipated Wii U games on November 21st.

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The BBC ran an article this past week about sound design in videogames, talking about Alien: Isolation, FIFA, and the hard work that goes into absorbing you in a location.

Edward Smith looks our relationship to technology as a conceptual character in Alien: Isolation.

Hazel Monforton examines Outlast in the context of surveillance.

Jerk in Progress has posted an extremely thorough post contrasting how the Fallout and Tomb Raider series approached norms of sexuality.
Jon Peterson of Medium offers this history of war games in the early 20th Century and the place of women in those games.

At Paste, Austin Walker writes on Watch Dogs and Shadow of Mordor’s nemesis system. He details Mordor‘s approach to failure and moves on to observations on Watch Dogs before comparing the games’ presentation of NPCs the violence we inflict on them.

Rob Fahey writes that corruption is a flow of power or money and therefore cannot begin with a group that is largely powerless and impoverished, such as indie developers and games critics.


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