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The Week in Links #26
Kieron Gillen on ‘No Russian’ , the controversial level from Modern Warfare 2. Pretty much the last word on the subject. Last week the eloquent, anonymous ex-London call girl, Belle de Jour, revealed her identity. Here’s an excellent side story about a blogger who ...
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Bayonetta
The best two Japanese action games of the year are diametrically opposed in approach. Demon’s Souls is a brooding traipse through the corridors of purgatory, fair but relentlessly unforgiving. It teaches that modern videogames have made us weak and stupid, that our gaming muscles have ...
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Modern Warfare 2
Twice, Infinity Ward asks if you’re absolutely sure you want to see it. The scene, the fourth you’ll encounter in the most widely anticipated game of the year, could be “disturbing” or “offensive”, repeats the warning. You smile and agree that, yes, you ...
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The Week in Links #25
Hey, Obama! Dude, you won already … Succeed blog . Positively wonderful. I am a grown man. I have responsibilities and dependents. And yet this squat chocobo tat steals my heart. Idiot. “Many gamers would rather take a beating if they think that they are accomplishing ...
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Best Thing I Saw Today #53: Chabon on Telling Stories
“A mind is not blown, in spite of whatever Hollywood seems to teach, merely by action sequences, things exploding, thrilling planetscapes, wild bursts of speed. “Those are good things. But a mind is blown when something you always feared but knew to be impossible turns out to be ...
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Swings and Roundabouts
Keita Takahashi sits alone, six thousand miles from home, in a damp, vacant house set within the grounds of an autumn forest somewhere in the middle of England. He wears a puffer jacket, huddled next to an electric fire for warmth. With slow, meticulous movements he wraps a length of string ...
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Killerspiele: In Search of Germany’s Virtual Scapegoats.
An October Saturday and Stuttgart is pale with the cold. Outside the State Opera House, the city’s grand attraction, a skip sits awkward and incongruous to its surroundings. The sides are spray-painted with graffiti, a hip hop-cum-youth club pastiche probably commissioned to soften the ...
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One Night Left
Friday night was One Night Left, the chiptune club night organised by award-winning radio show, One Life Left, to mark the almost-end of Nottingham’s GameCity conference. The show was headlined by Sabrepulse and Syphus , two incredibly lovely and eloquent 8-bit music nerds, who also led ...
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