Recent content by FutureExile

I know it's an increasingly unpopular opinion, but I like review scores. Don't get me wrong, I can see why many people dislike them. Game reviewers and many serious gamers think a review score trivializes the act of game criticism, reduces a complex set of ideas and insights into a kind of...

I did that. I bought the 360 just for Space Giraffe. I ended buying more games than that obviously but that was what sold the system for me. Edit: Was also thisclose to buying a PS3 for Dark Souls.

Doxing seems to be all the rage. In that spirit, I'm going to dump the personal, medical and financial information of two of video games' biggest stars. Name: Mario Personal Email Address: SonicSux69@aol.com Criminal History: Mario's seemingly cheerful and easy going outward appearance...

For a brief period in my life - about five or six years - I lost interest in video games. But then one winter a video game store opened in my neighborhood (note: this was well before there was a Gamestop on every corner so it was still kind of a novelty). And one evening I decided to go inside...

A haiku from the year 4,000,000,000 ... The sun has grown cold The earth is ice and darkness Still this flame war burns.

Here is what's written on the tombstones of some video game greats. If you know of any more epitaphs or last words, please share them with the rest of us. It will help us to grieve, as a community. "I'm off to find my princess in her heavenly castle." Mario "Please don't tell the furries...

"Doxing is so wrong" Says man while searching for GIFs of The Fappening

Oregon Trail. Dying of dysentery was kind of fun at the time, although a little ghoulish in retrospect. I think it might have been the first commercially successful educational software. I was told by a teacher I know that they still make versions of this game.

The skies grow dark. From A deep slumber the beast wakes: 4chan is angered. "Twitter is for fools" Says developer. Thousands Tweet their approval. Gamers dying like This sick yew-tree claims man who Set fire to orchard On Phil Fish leaving the internet (yet again) ... In...

Let me tell you about a time, one long before many of you were born. A simpler time. A time when you would spend half-an-hour trying to load a game from a cassette tape onto your VIC 20 before being unceremoniously dumped to a crash screen. It was a time when your mom would berate you for...

Jeff Minter from Llamasoft fame. He's a grizzly-looking Welshman who's been creating amazing games since indie developers were called bedroom coders. Actually, I suggest we go back to calling indies bedroom coders, but that's another topic. He is a fan of old-school arcade games...

That's an interesting point of view that I've never heard articulated this clearly before. Fantasy and other forms of play may be a healthy outlet for things that our body and mind crave deeply and on some level might even need to function properly, but can't be accommodated by a civilized...

What I wrote is a defensible, rational criticism of Tropes in particular and also provided reasons why approaching serious video game criticism through a mainly social and political lens is faulty in general. It only leads to the most superficial insights and is therefore a dead end. There is no...

It's not a vague criticism. It gets to the heart of why much modern criticism of video games is so poor. Viewing video games as merely a social construct rather than as a subject that is worthy of study in and of itself is by definition superficial. Let me put it this way: if Anita is correct...

Google Kama Sutra chess set. If you dare. And then play it with someone you love. :D