Sick Week
Having been sick for half a week now, I’ll probably still be sick by the time this gets published, thus making this Monday the worst I have had in a long time. I had a whole column typed out about all the many things I hate about The New Super Mario Bros 2, only to...
Moderate Your Games!
Back in the day, you needed some heavy duty software to play games online. And I don’t mean the sorts of flash games you find on your web browser- no, I am referring to the glorious Multi-User Dungeon, appropriately abbreviated MUD. For those of you unfamiliar with MUDs, they are a lot like old-school Dungeons & Dragons, in that...
Telling a Story with Cards
With my long holiday finally over, it’s time to get back to work in wonderful world of video games, and what better way to do so than completely side step the entire medium? This week, instead, I’ll be on about the popular card game Magic: The Gathering. One does not even need to play it...
Slender: 55 Megabites of Sheer Horror
Slender is just about one of the scariest experiences I’ve ever had. It manages to get close to the kind of horror I’ve only really encountered in Jerzey Kosinski’s harrowing Steps, or David Lynch’s Inland Empire. As with both of these, however, the experience of horror comes...
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At Play 2012 South Hill Park Bracknell Exhibition Review
At Play 2012 South Hill Park, Bracknell. You wouldn’t automatically think of Bracknell as a hub for contemporary art in the South East, however it must be said that South Hill Park is a diamond in the rough. At Play exhibition, now in its fourth and final year, has traditionally brought a touch of mischievous...
The Flaneur And Video Games
photo credit: brianbgv Hi, I’m Tom Bunting, The Flaneur’s new Video Game editor. Now, I know that some of you are rolling your eyes at the suggestion that The Flaneur needs a “video game” editor. Maybe you think video games are nothing more than children’s toys, maybe you think they turn young boys into sex-crazed...
Video Games as the Patchwork Art
Art, to me, is wonderful because it has no rules; when you start to add rules to art, I feel it cripples what you can do. -Jim Sterling I have spoken before of Bioware’s Mass Effect 1 & 2 in generally high esteem. In addition to having well balanced, evolving gameplay, it featured Bioware’s usual...
An Art Form In Limbo: Updating The Great Games Debate
(Screen Shot From Limbo) Video gaming as an art form? The long-running debate has been rekindled. The artistic credentials of video gaming are being defended by curators at The Smithsonian Museum of American Art who are hosting the first major exhibition dedicated exclusively to gaming. Gamers like Enron (playwright Lucy Prebble) have also voraciously...
Sign up today! The Campaign for Test Matches to last Ten days (TCTMTLTD)
Welcome to The Campaign for Test Matches to last Ten days. Please sign up to show your support for this vital new campaign. Join the facebook group! Who are we? The Campaign for Test Matches to last Ten Days (from here on referred to with the easy-to-remember nickname “TCTMTLTD”) is a group of worried cricket...
