Recent content by Paul Barclay

I once had a guy I beat at LoL repeatedly message me telling me that I was a "Mexican." I found it very confusing because I wasn't aware that "Mexican" is meant to be insulting. Did I miss the Random Racism Memo or something? On the few occasions I've been told that I "play like a fag," I've...

I'm interested in why the author of this article (the Escapist writer, Andy Chalk)has chosen to characterize the item-choosing task as "they were told to select gift items for others." The article he links to the University of Luxembourg press release says, This says nothing about other...

In some fo their earliest advertising, EA asked the question, "Can a computer make you cry?" They must have been having problems with that, so they decided to see if a computer could make me swear at it or throw pieces of it across the room...

Yeah? What was the glitch? I don't remember having any trouble with it until I got to the Sheriff and realized I wasn't going to be able to computer hack or seduce my way out of that situation.

Stealth racing is kind of brilliant. Everyone is driving a sort of James Bond-esque supercar with loads of weapons and gadgets and made to work their way through a crowded, GTA style cityscape to an objective. The challenge here being that you and the AI drive identical sorts of cars, so if...