I feel, as someone unfortunate enough to suffer from the affliction of the XY genotype, that I must state that at the outset and as explicitly as possible that I do not own a fedora: I’m a card-carrying feminist with the academic qualifications to back that claim up, or at least the ability to pay … [Read more…]
The financially-flailing GAME has caused some consternation with the way in which it has decided to promote the new Android microconsole OUYA. Certain elements within the UK games enthusiast community have pointed to this being tantamount to encouragement to encouraging piracy of games, particularly through its billing of the SuperGnes emulator as an example of … [Read more…]
Sports games should always be an easy sell: the task of the developers working on such games is simply to provide a workable implementation of an already well-known set of rules to fit around the limitations of any input devices that may be at one’s disposal in the course of playing games. For the most … [Read more…]
In this month’s Edge, a case was made by Tadhg Kelly against the general sense of dread that seems to accompany the news of moves such as the further incorporation of microtransactions into (typically EA) games and the borderline puritanical clamouring of “games are not what they used to be” from certain elements within the … [Read more…]
Games are, at their most basic, little more than systems of rules; systems of conjunctions, disjunctions, conditionals, biconditionals and relations that provide structure to and set out the way in which a player is able to interact with the world. Using such-and-such an item will lead to an increase in a player character’s health; combining … [Read more…]