Tag Archive: Jonathan Blow

May 02

Are Modern Games Dumb or Are Some Critics a Bit Too Snobbish?

Holy Crap, Taylor Clark strikes again, this time with an article on Kotaku that proclaims modern games as being dumb.   There are a bunch of things I don’t like about this article. The first thing that struck me as a reason to ram my face into the nearest desk was this gem:   “… …

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Apr 17

Death of the Developer: Rewriting Barthes’ Concept for Videogame

Looks like 2012 isn’t the year the Earth will die, but the year humanity torn themselves apart (well, not really). March started off the year huge with the Mass Effect 3 controversy, which is still going strong, and now it looks like new contentions are introducing themselves into the gaming world. Earlier this year Phil …

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