Pach-Attack! 1) Cheap apps on Vita: First of all, that little “look at it” video was awesome. A lot of people just can’t seem to accept that video game businesses are out to make money and Pachter brings up some good points that Sony wouldn’t make any money on little app games. I’m pretty sure …
Tag Archive: Games as art
Aug 19
David Cage Will Never Cease to Frustrate Me
By now, you may have started to suspect that I am not a fan of Heavy Rain. It’s not that is wasn’t a fun game, because certain moments were fun, but from a writing and design perspective, it may have been the worst thing I have ever seen. Call it creative differences, but the game …
Jul 21
Rant Gaming’s Argument for Why Games Aren’t Art
Okay, so it’s more of a who cares if it’s art but the authors does put up some arguments for why games aren’t quite art yet. Personally I disagree. A large part of the argument seems to be that society as a whole chooses what is art and what isn’t, but I disagree. I …
Jul 02
Let’s Talk About Roger Ebert, Video Games, and Art
So a little while ago, a Kotaku writer posted this, a little video essay on the video game that film critic Roger Ebert actually liked. Here’s the article talking about the game from the man himself. Within the Video Game community, Ebert is kind of demonized as the mortal enemy to all gamers because he …
