rolling thread of stuff worth reading on videogames

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/32828/Behind_The_Scenes_Microsofts_Attempt_To_Woo_Conan_OBrien_For_Xbox_Live.php

Microsoft has been busy speaking with several media companies about acquiring content for a pay-television subscription service that would stream through the Xbox 360 dashboard. It's possible the service could launch this holiday season, but that's dependent upon the company locking in a sufficient number of partners and development running on schedule.

Last November, Reuters reported the company was discussing a number of options, including creating a "virtual cable operator" to be delivered online or using the 360 to authenticate cable subscribers to watch shows - similar to its current deal with AT&T's Uverse. Another option could be creating additional individual content channels for providers, as the company has done with ESPN.

"You meet with these guys and they show you all this stuff that they're developing and it's mind blowing," said Ross. "I think it's coming and it's big. It's just that we weren't in a position at that point to figure out what it was."

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-02-21-the-boy-who-stole-half-life-2-article

interview with the guy who made the waiting for godot game
http://therumpus.net/2011/03/the-rumpus-interview-with-mike-rosenthal/

Rumpus link. Instant ignore.

idgi

http://www.nomorelost.org/2011/03/25/straight-male-gamer-told-to-get-over-it-by-bioware/

remember Tom Bissell and his shitty ramblings about doing lines and playing GTA4? well:

http://www.gamestop.com/xbox-360/games/gears-of-war-3-epic-edition/90535

Art and Design of Gears of War by Tom Bissell

I remember that book. Dude's drug-induces paeans made me wanna punch him

whats funny or 'funny' is that he wrote a very long profile of cliffy b & the last modern warfare game for the newyorker

argh GEARS of war

According to zadie smith, in the 90s Tom bissell was responsible for rehabilitating or even establishing the outstanding literary reputations of Paula fox and Richard Yates. You still suck, Tom bissell.

Anna anthropy's book is gonna come out soon and it's probably gonna be great.

http://waxy.org/2011/06/kind_of_screwed/

On pixel art fair use. BS lawsuit, IMO

the one thing that sort of tips me in favor of the photo guy was that they
had gone to the trouble of clearing the music, which was certainly transformed
much more than the photo was.

No nah, all did they were cover versions, which you don't even need a real license for (i.e. you don't need permission from the song owners). Sure you technically need get a mechanical license, but as long as you send checks at the compulsory rate you're pretty much in the clear.

what i mean is the fact that they even bothered to get a mechanical license (though it seems from his post like they may have even secured further permission of some sort), but not for the cover photo, makes me more sympathetic to the photo guy. that, plus their charging of money for it, but I'm not sure what to think about that part. I doubt The Advantage is paying royalties to DuckTales composer/programmer #3, or whomever, and I'm cool with that.

Love reading Sulla's games:http://garath.net/Sullla/civ4MP.html

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/the-edge-of-reason?page=1

the tale of an acclaimed iPhone game and how it's been hogtied by the actions of an unconscionable douchelord

Only just got round to reading this one. Holy shit.

I'm sure this guy Langdell has always been a total chancer. The Edge's catalogue was full of games that were either mediocre or just plain awful(the screenshots in that article speak for themselves), and clearly most were rushed out to make a quick buck with little regard to quality control. The worst was probably Warlock, a game so lousy it had to be given away free in early Atari ST bundles.

Also I was wondering if Langdell had ever tried to sue Edge Magazine, but it turns out he was recently sued by them, for using their logo without permission. Haha.

xp I only knew his tutorials before now but wow -- reading these games are really amazing. In the middle of reading RBPB2.

love this article.
http://insertcredit.com/2011/07/11/the-world-warrior/

+1

+2

stuff worth hearing about videogames?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uKl3xeBVY4

http://pastebin.com/W7fiktcb

haha i new you would be the one who posted that

http://www.auntiepixelante.com/?p=1228

Some mainstream games for you ilg people who pay more than $15 for games.

http://kotaku.com/5829606/ive-played-deus-ex-she-hasnt-now-were-playing-it-together

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/extra-punctuation/9087-Extra-Punctuation-Why-No-Couples-in-Games

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/killscreen/17-everybodys-doing-it-how-playing-legend-of-zelda-ocarina-of-time-as-a-30-year-old-reveals-its-magical-adolescence-of/

pretty rmde @ the repeated sex bit tho

pitchfork does games now?

bissell now in new yorker o_O

oh god

Shadow of the Colossus is the Wilco of video games tbf

lol

Bioshock would fit the bill better.

Bioshock is the Kid A of video games.

in short -- do not want

more than a little wankery, but it had its moments i thought.

http://killscreendaily.com/

^ they're just irregularly poaching a writer from killscreen btw--i dig killscreen

http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/09/04/dont-quit-how-to-save-adventures-225/

yet another article about what's up with adventure games these days, but this one is actually good

ha, clever.
http://killscreendaily.com/articles/reviews/infinity-blade

"I insert the game card, gently, into the slot of my Aqua Blue system. As I walk over to a red chaise lounge the system slips out of my fumbling hands, falling onto the carpet. I flashback to my first kiss, in my parent’s garage—It gets betterthe more you do it, she told me—and with that in mind, I begin my quest."
aaaaaand i stopped reading there

gonna have to live through a lot more shitty games writing before the field matures... sigh

that said, maybe there's some kind of history to this sort of pap that i'm not getting, like cherished jazz reviews or some shit, i don't know

i think the history of this particular pap is early p4k writing

^

they even use the fonts pfork used to use

not reading, but this is awesome:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WPZbwDHz-0

A+ would watch again

The pastebin bit has somegood points

That was awesome, ZS

http://www.joystickdivision.com/2011/09/videogames_are_awesome_because.php

(I am not Gus Mastrapa)

http://killscreendaily.com/articles/everybodys-doing-it