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PETA: In Your Games, Judging Your Values

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

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PETA: In Your Games, Judging Your Values

Just in time for Thanksgiving, PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) has released their own riff on Majesco's Cooking Mama. The game, which this avowed carnivore found to be surprisingly entertaining, guides the player through the cartoonishly gruesome steps necessary to prepare a traditional Thanksgiving turkey, including removing the turkey's feathers and entrails, [...]

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Seth McFarlane + Super Mario = Hilarity

Thursday, September 11, 2008

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Seth McFarlane + Super Mario = Hilarity

Spotted at Joystiq, Seth McFarlane (of Family Guy and American Dad fame) has started a weekly series of animated shorts on YouTube, and this week's offering is all about gaming's favorite icon, Mario. Watch and enjoy, friends.

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Gaming and the Perceptions of Outsiders

Monday, March 31, 2008

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Gaming and the Perceptions of Outsiders

Over at Escapist Magazine, Brenda Brathwaite wrote a lengthy feature trying to divine the source of the non-gaming population's antipathy toward video games. She polled a group of forty of her friends who do not play video games about their opinions of games and discovered that the mood was overwhelmingly negative with only two respondents [...]

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Uwe Boll: A Constant Source of Comfort

Thursday, March 6, 2008

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Uwe Boll: A Constant Source of Comfort

Uwe Boll is an angry man. He's a violently angry man who challenges critics to boxing matches. He firmly believes his video game movies can beat out Steve Spielberg. He has produced such reprehensible dreck as House of the Dead, Alone in the Dark, and BloodRayne. And let me tell you something: Uwe Boll is [...]

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