games
April 20, 2006
Finally, A New Kind of First-Person Shooter
This game is just too cool. It's a first-person shooter with no graphics at all - just a blank screen. Instead of visual information, you navigate levels entirely through 3D sound cues. It's like playing Doom as Daredevil.
The game is designed for visual impaired players, but I think everybody ought to give it a try. It's a breath of fresh air in a computer game market full of me-too retreads more interested in polygon counts than in innovative gameplay.
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April 04, 2006
(Perhaps) The World's Largest Video Game Collction
More photos and an interview here.
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April 15, 2005
A Little D&D/LOTR Humor . . .
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March 19, 2005
Is Super Mario on Crack?
Here's a great NYT piece on the increasing representation of drugs in video games. In the upcoming remake of Narc, players can take pot, ectasy, crack and LSD. Each drug affects gameplay - some challenges become easier, but you risk addiction if you overdo it.
As the game designers point, out this isn't any different from what Super Mario's alway's done:
"There's always something you can use to enhance or alter the player-character's abilities," Mr. Cline said. "We were the first game to call them pot and coke and crack."
The New York Times > Arts > Music > An Arbiter of Hip-Hop Finds Itself as the Target
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