Category Archive: Video Games

Reaching to the crowds

Reaching to the crowds

Crowd-sourced game development: The next big thing?

 

All play, no work: Gamercamp v 1.0

All play, no work: Gamercamp v 1.0

Why you should send the kids to Gamercamp: an interview with co-organizer Mark Rabo.

 

Dear sports fans: Get the fuck off my lawn.

Dear sports fans: Get the fuck off my lawn.

Why sports fans and gaming don’t mix.

 

Generation gap

Generation gap

Poets need to move on to new mediums to deliver their messages to our generation.

 

Faith in fantasy

Faith in fantasy

Psychological fantasy films and the path to the unreal in art.

 

The Beatles: Rock Band as historiographic metafiction

The Beatles: Rock Band as historiographic metafiction

Harmonix’s latest interactive music game offers a heavily stylized retelling of a band’s history – but is it any less valuable than any other “real” historical reference?

 

Digital undead – Plants vs. Zombies interview

Digital undead – Plants vs. Zombies interview

Society Eye converses with George Fan, creator of Plants vs. Zombies, the tower defense hit for PC – and soon for Xbox Live and iPhone.

 

Darwinian dueling

Darwinian dueling

Starcraft isn’t the only place where aliens and marines battle for supremacy. One of the best multiplayer mods of all time is getting a sequel. Here’s why you should be interested in Natural Selection 2.

 

Meshing the virtual and real

Meshing the virtual and real

Virtual worlds offer us freedom from the boundaries of reality. So why do we project the problems of the world into our second lives? By Alex Cybulski.

 

Videogame characters of well-rounded esteem

Videogame characters of well-rounded esteem

If good characters cohesively hold a variety of characteristics in interrelated unity, are fictional folks like Andrew Ryan, Captain Price and Niko Bellic more than just flat entities?

 

Dan Marshall, adventurer extraordinaire

Dan Marshall, adventurer extraordinaire

Only a complete idiot would give an interview to Society Eye. Luckily, Zombie Cow Studios’ Dan Marshall was happy to step up to the task! (Note: in-game joke)

 

Everybody Hertz: Jim Munroe on indie gaming

Everybody Hertz: Jim Munroe on indie gaming

Author, comic book writer and sometime award-winning videogame creator Jim Munroe talks about the wonderful world of independent games.

 

Dawn of the debt

Dawn of the debt

Why our ongoing zombie fiction craze could be related to the recession.

 

Musical collaboration in games

Musical collaboration in games

Collaborations between musicians and rhythm-based music games are becoming the norm – but pop artists have been involved with games in more original ways too.