Posts Tagged 'Mass Effect'
The Ancient Roots of Role-Playing: Edward III's Medieval LARP
Today, everyone knows someone who’s played Humans versus Zombies. You, dear reader, have probably played it yourself. But did you know that when you run around your college campus with a yellow bandana and a Nerf gun, you are participating
The Ancient Roots of Role-Playing: Edward III's Medieval LARP
Today, everyone knows someone who’s played Humans versus Zombies. You, dear reader, have probably played it yourself. But did you know that when you run around your college campus with a yellow bandana and a Nerf gun, you are participating
Someone to watch over me: social spectatorship in games
New parents spend a lot of their free time exhausted, wondering if they will ever sleep again. Following my daughter’s birth, I started playing Oblivion. I began the game by myself, but my wife Anna eventually came to watch me
Someone to watch over me: social spectatorship in games
New parents spend a lot of their free time exhausted, wondering if they will ever sleep again. Following my daughter’s birth, I started playing Oblivion. I began the game by myself, but my wife Anna eventually came to watch me
How to Shep a Shepard – A cosplay help guide
(Cosplayer: Elizabeth DeLoria) This isn’t a step-by-step tutorial. Partly I didn’t leave a good paper trail, partly because I found it’s next to impossible to replicate a cosplay armour because of the lack of standardisation. Instead, I hope this works
How to Shep a Shepard – A cosplay help guide
(Cosplayer: Elizabeth DeLoria) This isn’t a step-by-step tutorial. Partly I didn’t leave a good paper trail, partly because I found it’s next to impossible to replicate a cosplay armour because of the lack of standardisation. Instead, I hope this works
BREAKING: Hulk doesn't just smash…Now he trolls too!
Film Crit Hulk has a column smashing Mass Effect 3’s detractors in which he explains, among other things, why the game’s ending is actually spot on and communicated the entire point of the three game series perfectly. Unfortunately, the not so jolly
BREAKING: Hulk doesn't just smash…Now he trolls too!
Film Crit Hulk has a column smashing Mass Effect 3’s detractors in which he explains, among other things, why the game’s ending is actually spot on and communicated the entire point of the three game series perfectly. Unfortunately, the not so jolly
The Lost Words of Mass Effect 3
“You have messages at your private terminal.” In Mass Effect 3, this single quote is repeated more than any other sentence to the player. Just approaching the the galaxy map will prompt Specialist Traynor to dutifully tell Shepard when new
The Lost Words of Mass Effect 3
“You have messages at your private terminal.” In Mass Effect 3, this single quote is repeated more than any other sentence to the player. Just approaching the the galaxy map will prompt Specialist Traynor to dutifully tell Shepard when new
Living with a Prosthetic Avatar
Around six months ago I enrolled in a theology class known as “The Problem of God”. Although my professor was a Pastor and my college a Catholic institution, the issues we tackled were bravely secular and refreshingly open-minded. My professor
Living with a Prosthetic Avatar
Around six months ago I enrolled in a theology class known as “The Problem of God”. Although my professor was a Pastor and my college a Catholic institution, the issues we tackled were bravely secular and refreshingly open-minded. My professor
Feedback Loop: How Videogames Stole my Daydreams
When my brother and I were younger our parents used to force us to spend a certain amount of time outside every day. In the summer especially, when school was out and the days were lazy, we were cast out
Feedback Loop: How Videogames Stole my Daydreams
When my brother and I were younger our parents used to force us to spend a certain amount of time outside every day. In the summer especially, when school was out and the days were lazy, we were cast out
A lot of videogames really are dumb, but not all of them have to be
Taylor Clark doesn’t think there are many intelligent videogames. Or, as he put it in his recent profile of Jonathan Blow, “Video games, with very few exceptions, are dumb.” Here we go again. Another “respected” media outlet taking shots at
A lot of videogames really are dumb, but not all of them have to be
Taylor Clark doesn’t think there are many intelligent videogames. Or, as he put it in his recent profile of Jonathan Blow, “Video games, with very few exceptions, are dumb.” Here we go again. Another “respected” media outlet taking shots at
The Paragon Homunculus in ME
Over the course of seven days I fell in and out of love, only to find it again in the arms of another. I stopped a genocide, only to cause two others; I talked people off ledges, helped mend broken
The Paragon Homunculus in ME
Over the course of seven days I fell in and out of love, only to find it again in the arms of another. I stopped a genocide, only to cause two others; I talked people off ledges, helped mend broken
Allegory of the Citadel
(Mass Effect 3 Spoilers Ahead) “…when any of them is liberated and compelled suddenly to stand up and turn his neck round and walk and look towards the light, he will suffer sharp pains; the glare will distress him, and
Allegory of the Citadel
(Mass Effect 3 Spoilers Ahead) “…when any of them is liberated and compelled suddenly to stand up and turn his neck round and walk and look towards the light, he will suffer sharp pains; the glare will distress him, and