Tag: video games
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My Experience at PlayStation Experience
This year, I was lucky enough to attend PlayStation Experience here in San Francisco. Although I wanted to go on Saturday for the panels, I was only able to make it on Sunday afternoon. I spent about five hours exploring the various booths — loads of great indie games — and playing a couple demos. Here…
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Multiplayer and the Quest to Make Gaming Cool
In our extroverted society, being alone can mean being uncool. It has a lot of negative connotations: You don’t have any friends, you don’t like to be with people, you’re a nerd or geek or dork. But nowadays, “geekery” is becoming something like a fad. While decades ago, reading comic books was the lonely fate…
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Simple Mechanics to Tell a Complex Story in “Her Story”
Last month I spent an evening playing Her Story on my iPhone. (It’s also available on Windows and OS X.) I’d read about it and had it recommended to me by a coworker, so as soon as I had a couple hours to myself, I dove in. (No big spoilers, but beware if you want to…
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